Following his loss to rival Ted Cruz in the Iowa caucus on Monday, February 1, US Republican Presidential candidate, Donald Trump, has reportedly been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
US Presidential candidate 'nominated' for Nobel Peace Prize
Report said Pope Francis and a campaigner for ISIS rape survivors are also on the nomination list.
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Report said Pope Francis and a campaigner for ISIS rape survivors are also on the nomination list.
According to a Nobel watcher and head of the Peace Research Institute in Oslo, Norway, Kristian Berg Harpviken, the NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has also been tipped for an award, alongside Colombian peace negotiators, US Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz and Ali Akbar Salehi, head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organisation.
Speaking to Reuters, Harpviken claimed to have sighted a letter submitted by an unidentified US nominator who proposed Trump for “his vigorous peace through strength ideology, used as a threat weapon of deterrence against radical Islam, Isis, nuclear Iran and Communist China”.
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Although thousands of people are eligible to submit nominations for the Peace Prize, Harpviken did not believe Trump has a chance of winning.
According to Associated Press, the Norwegian Nobel committee receives more than 200 nominations,
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