Press TV has conducted an interview with James Jatras, former US Senate foreign policy analyst from Washington, about the victory of Donald Trump in securing the required number of delegates to win the GOP nomination in the 2016 US presidential campaign.

The following is a rough transcription of the interview.

Press TV: Now, nomination is one thing, let’s not talk about that for the moment, but the processes and the realities that contributed and led to the nomination that we’re discussing right now is totally different thing. Now what does this process and the reality is contributing to it essentially tell you and tell us about the, let’s say, undercurrents that we’re witnessing in the US politics and the US and American political landscape at the moment?

Jatras: I think the big picture is that ordinary Americans across political spectrum are really sick to death of the establishment in both parties. And Trump ran as an anti-establishment candidate in the Republican party and Bernie Sanders is doing the same thing in the Democratic party. Now, looks like the system is rigged enough in the Democratic party that Hillary Clinton who is the face of the establishment on the Democratic side can beat back that challenge from Bernie.

But Trump is now the all about name the Republican nominee and I think this changes the American political landscape in a very traumatic way. We have to see what happened with Hillary and her emails whether she’s indicted by the Justice Department for that I think that’s why Bernie is still staying in the game, because even now he can win on the numbers. If Hillary gets taken down because she’s indicted, he’ll be the last man standing. Either way, we’ll have a very interesting race in November.

Press TV: No doubt, the policies and the politics are being formulated in the sweeps, but what essentially happens is on the streets of the US. Now, are we witnessing some sort of social transformation on the streets of the US at the moment?

Jatras: Yes, we are and that’s, I think, you say in the sweeps; so, I think that’s exactly right that’s what anticipated that the Republicans would put up Jeb Bush and Hillary would have the Democratic nomination in Tweedledee Tweedledum. We have the same Hobson’s choice, where there really is no choice. I think Trump has really stolen that process because of support from the streets on not only the conservative side of the spectrum but many unexpected places. Today, he just declared that the Republican Party is not a workers’ Party that’s not a kind of formulation we usually hear about the Republican party. So, I think this is a very unusual development here in the United States.

Press TV: And would you have any kind of forecast for the weeks to come, very briefly?

Jatras: I think Trump is going to be very difficult to beat. All the poll showed that actually Bernie would have a better chance of being competitive with Trump than Hillary would have, but I don’t think he’s going to get a shot at it. I think the system will stay rigged on the democratic side. The odds are that Hillary will be the nominee and I think Trump will probably beat her.