'Anything is possible'
US President Barack Obama yesterday warned Democrats that anything was possible in the US elections and to "stay worried until all the votes are counted."
Obama, who is the keynote speaker at the Democratic National Convention, was asked in an interview with NBC's Today Show whether Republican candidate Donald Trump could defeat the Democrat's Hillary Clinton.
"Anything is possible," he said. "As somebody who has now been in elected office at various levels for about 20 years, I have seen all kinds of crazy stuff happen, and I think everybody that goes into campaigns not running scared can end up losing.
"My advice to Democrats is you stay worried until all the votes are cast and counted, because one of the dangers in an election like this is that people don't take the challenge seriously, they stay home, and we end up getting something else."
Hillary Clinton's campaign has blamed Russia for an embarrassing leak of emails from the Democratic National Committee.
"Anything is possible," Obama said when asked in the interview about the hack. "Donald Trump has repeatedly expressed admiration for Vladimir Putin," Obama said in an excerpt of the interview that aired earlier. Kremlin yesterday denied interfering in the US election campaign.
Earlier on Tuesday Wikileaks founder Julian Assange said his whistleblowing website might release "a lot more material" relevant to the US electoral campaign.
Assange was speaking in a CNN interview following the release of nearly 20,000 emails stolen from the Democratic National Committee by suspected Russian hackers.
Assange told CNN that Democratic Party officials were using the specter of Russian involvement to distract from the content of the emails, which have had tumultuous affect on the party at the start of its national convention.
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