US Election 2016: ‘Psychic’ Indian fish picks Trump
A “psychic” fish in India on Tuesday picked Donald Trump as the next president of the United States, hours before Americans head to the polls.
Chanakya II, a flowerhorn cichlid fish, was given three chances to pick between two floating sticks bearing a photo of Republican Trump or his Democratic challenger Hillary Clinton.
The creature, which has a bulbous forehead that resembles the extravagant coiffure of the real estate mogul, swam towards Trump all three times.
Chanakya II’s first official prediction sees him join the swelling menagerie of soothsaying animals.
His predecessor, Chanakya I, was famous for accurately forecasting winners in football and cricket matches, his owners at the Chennai-based NGO Indian Community Welfare Organisation said.
There have been numerous “psychic” animals since Germany’s football oracle, Paul the Octopus, successfully tipped the winner of eight-straight matches during the 2010 World Cup.
All eyes are on the US presidential election as a divisive 511-day campaign comes to an end with either the country’s first female president or a populist property tycoon poised to enter the White House.
More than 40 million Americans have already cast ballots in states that allow early voting, with opinion polls suggesting Clinton has a slim edge.
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Chanakya II, a flowerhorn cichlid fish pick of Trump tells me that Trump is in deep trouble of being eaten. That translates to a whopping defeat at the hands of Hillary.
American electorate have the power to decide where the pendulum will swing.
That fish just committed suicide. Hillary will win.
That fish is nothing but an harbinger of evil a tool in the hands of a machoistic pig its handler
The future is in the hands of God. Lets see the way it all turns out. I dont know whether it is Trump or Clinton.
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