"The country is crippled despite what President Barack Obama, and Hillary Clinton say," Kumar, founder of the Republican Hindu Coalition told PTI in an interview here as the US awaits the results of the presidential elections.
Claiming that the there is a huge amount of debt and unemployment in the country, he said, "there is a movement in America that a vast majority of the people want to have a businessman, a non-politician and an outsider to run the country so that it could be back on its feet".
"Keeping all this in mind, the country must give a chance to a non-politician and see if he can straighten out these things pretty much in the same light as Prime Minister Narendra Modi did two years ago," Kumar said.
Expressing confidence that the election picture is "looking very good" and the normally blue states have Hillary Clinton defending them, he said, "This is a good sign. The overall voter turnout is very strong. It is looking pretty good, it may be a big surprise from the traditional polls".
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