Ben Stein tells Newsmax TV he's regretfully predicting the election of Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, in part because of her strength in the battleground state of Pennsylvania.
Stein, an actor, author, economist and former speechwriter for Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, said Friday on "The Steve Malzberg Show:"
"I'm sorry to say this but I assume that Mrs. Clinton is going to win and I assume she's going to win because she will win by the suburban voters outside Philadelphia. That will be what pushes her over the top but why that is I don't understand.
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"The tragedy here is that cycle after cycle Republicans think maybe somehow we'll pull off Pennsylvania and they almost never do … In this case it's a true heartache and a heartbreak because Pennsylvania is a big coal mining state. Mrs. Clinton has promised in blood that she's going to pull all these people out of business and put them on welfare.
"Why would Pennsylvania elect her? Why would those suburban women in Philadelphia who presumably don't want their husbands going around committing rapes and then having wives excavating them, why would they be voting Clinton? I don't understand it."
And if Clinton is elected next Tuesday, does the nation face a constitutional crisis as some have predicted?
"I think if the Democrats takes Congress, takes both Houses of Congress, there will be no constitutional crisis," Stein said.
"If the Republicans retain either the House or the Senate or both, then there will be a constitutional crisis because nobody along the line is going to say she's got to be indicted and [President Barack] Obama before the inauguration will pardon her and the country is going to be torn to shreds.
"I want to give [President Bill Clinton] credit. When he was president he was a unifier. He really was. He really tried to unify. I think he was in many ways when he was president a great man but Mrs. Clinton, no. Mrs. Clinton likes to fight."
Stein, whose acting career includes parts in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" and "Honeymoon in Vegas," is author of "How to Really Ruin Your Financial Life and Portfolio," published by Wiley.
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