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As long as Robert F. Kennedy Jr. focuses his ambitions on a Democratic primary challenge to President Joe Biden, he will do little damage to him. But if Kennedy runs as an independent on a third-party line, Biden’s chances of winning reelection next year are over. Pollster John McLaughlin shows in a recent survey Kennedy winning 15% of the vote in a Democratic primary. But the McLaughlin survey also shows that in a general election Kennedy draws 2-to-1 more from Biden’s voters than he does from former President Donald Trump’s. Indeed, I believe any third candidate would likely drain whatever...

After working with him in the Clinton White House, if there is one Democrat I know inside out, it is my former colleague George Stephanopoulos. The recent ABC/Washington Post poll showing Trump 9 points ahead of Biden bears all of his fingerprints. After years of seeing polls deliberately skewed against Trump to discourage people from backing or donating to him, we new have the spectacle of a poll biased for Trump, likely designed to force Biden out of the race. Democrats had hoped that the Trump indictments would hobble the GOP front-runner. But, instead, they have energized his base, essentially...

“You are cordially invited to a kangaroo court that will be held on Aug. 23, courtesy of the Republican National Committee. You will be the guest of honor.” That might as well have been the text of an engraved invitation to former President Trump to participate in the coming GOP debate next month. With potentially 12 opponents arrayed against him, moderators like Brett Baier who have proven to be immoderate in their treatment of Trump, sponsorship by Fox, a network whose owners have signaled their opposition to Trump, the proposed debate among Republican candidates more closely resembles a kangaroo court....

New York District Attorney Alvin Bragg is apparently planning to indict Donald Trump on a charge that he must know won’t stick. He dropped this very case a few months ago and is only reviving this turkey of a case because of political pressure. Andrew McCarthy, former Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, writing in the National Review, explains why Bragg cannot possibly win this case. It is based on a payment of hush money to Daniels and a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) to prevent her from speaking in public. But McCarthy points out: “a tryst...

...Morris predicts the Republicans will pick up a net positive of four Senate seats; and for the maximum count, it could balloon to 57 Senate seats on the GOP side. Here's Morris' breakdown of the Senate races worth watching:...For the "upset" category, Morris asserts that Senate candidates in Colorado (Joe O'Dea), Connecticut (Leora Levy), and Washington (Tiffany Smiley) could put Republicans in a dominant position, if any of the three prevail in traditionally left-leaning states. Morris opines the four novice Republicans vying for Senate seats in Georgia (Herschel Walker), Nevada (Adam Laxalt), Arizona (Blake Masters), and New Hampshire (Don Bolduc)...

Last night I caught Dick Morris' show on Newsmax. In his first segment, Morris stated that Democrat early voting numbers were way ahead of the GOP. Morris acknowledged that many GOP voters intend to wait until election day to vote because they don't trust early voting. Morris opined that this was a mistake because "stuff can happen", a kid can get sick, a severe toothache can result in an emergency visit to the dentist etc. Waiting until the last day to vote, therefore, may not go as intended. Meanwhile, the majority of Dem ballots have already been submitted. Morris stated...

Dick Morris was an adviser to Bill Clinton when he was Arkansas governor and later as president in 1992, but now advises Donald Trump He said both Bill and Hillary's recent comments about migrants are a sign that she's gearing up to run as Democrats' 'moderate' option in 2024 Morris predicted Clinton would announce a third White House bid if Democrats faced huge midterm losses in the Senate and House of Representatives Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's criticism of 'open borders' could be a sign that she's looking to mount a third presidential campaign, a former adviser to her...

A ray of light has burst forth from the chambers of U.S. District Court Judge Aileen M. Cannon making a Trump indictment very unlikely. At last, we find a jurist with a real world understanding of the stakes involved and the meaning for the country of a possible criminal proceeding against the former president. Until Judge Cannon’s ruling granting Trump’s lawyers’ request for the appointment of a special master to review the documents seized in the Mar-a-Lago raid, I felt that the case was in the grip of bureaucrats who had no understanding, or even any interest, in bringing any...

This week the Democratic campaign strategy for ’22 and ’24 became painfully apparent. They’ve tried everything they can to defeat Donald Trump. They framed him in the phony Russian collusion scandal. They impeached him twice. They manipulated the 2020 election, and they tried to persuade America that he was an insurrectionist trying to topple the government. All of that failed. Trump’s incredible wins in primary after primary show that his base has not abandoned him and that he has the solid support of the Republican Party. It is clear as I point out in my book, The Return, that he...

Senator Kristen Sinema (D-AZ) pretended to be upset at the tax increases in the Democratic reconciliation bill and feigned independence. But she was conning us all along. She was really holding out to fulfill a corrupt bargain with her richest supporters and major campaign donors. At the expense of the average taxpayer, she held back her approval of the Democratic reconciliation package so her rich supporters could skate by paying minimal taxes. Her conduct was so odious that it makes even the Washington swamp look bad. Her goal was to preserve the carried interest treatment of income earned by managers...

Former President Donald Trump will be the only political candidate to be able to say "four magic words, 'I did it already,'" when he runs in 2024, political strategist Dick Morris, the author of the book "The Return: Trump's Big 2024 Comeback," said on Newsmax Saturday. When any politician says they want to lower high energy prices and inflation, seal the border or more and Democrats argue that those issues can't be solved because they are global trends, "Trump will come back to those four words," said Morris on Newsmax's "Wake Up America." "'I did it already,'" Morris said Trump...

Former President Donald Trump is not only going to run in 2024, but he is going to get the Republican nomination without a primary fight, according to political strategist Dick Morris on Newsmax.Morris is out with a new bestseller, "The Return: Trump's Big 2024 Comeback," that asserts Trump will not only easily defeat any GOP challenger, but win back the presidency in 2024."The phrase is not 'likely,' the phrase is dead pipe certain: He's certain to run, and he is, I believe, certain to get the Republican nomination," Morris told Sunday's "Wake Up America." "I think he'll actually get it...

On Saturday's 'Dick Morris Democracy', Dick Morris explains how if Donald Trump runs in 2024, he will be both an incumbent and a challenger with Trump 2020 Pollster John McLaughlin.

Donald Trump is definitely running for president again in 2024 and will easily win the Republican nomination and retake the White House, his self-proclaimed “secret adviser” claims in a provocative new book. Dick Morris, a veteran political consultant who advised Bill Clinton for years, says he served as an unpaid, back-channel adviser to Trump in 2020. His father, Eugene Morris, was the longtime real estate lawyer for Trump’s dad, Fred and then son Donald. So, they have a longtime connection. In his new book “The Return: Trump’s 2024 Comeback” (Humanix Books), Morris claims that voters who have buyer’s remorse with...

Asked if she would run for president in 2024, Hillary answered: “No, out of the question. First of all, I expect Biden to run. He certainly intends to run. It would be very disruptive to challenge that.” For anybody who speaks Clintonese, that’s close to a declaration of candidacy! Had she said, “No. no way” and shut up it would be different. But by tying her denial to Biden running again, knowing full well that he won’t, she is basically declaring her candidacy if and when Biden drops out. Hillary for President III? Here’s how it could unfold: Step One:...

An expose by the Washington Times indicates that many left-wing Democrats — who advocate aggressive measures to deal with climate change — have sold their interests in renewable energy sources and switched their investments to profit from high returns in fossil fuel investments during the past few weeks. Rep. Lois Frankel (Democrat from West Palm, Florida) who says she is a strong supporter of the Green New Deal, sold her stake in a solar energy business and invested as much as $60,000 in fossil fuel companies. Because House rules permit members to estimate their holdings in ranges, precise numbers are...

Many conservatives these days are channeling Neville Chamberlain, the former UK Prime Minister whose failure to stand up to Hitler helped bring on World War II, often recycling the arguments for appeasement that he used to undermine British preparedness and hasten Nazi aggression. Particularly among conservative cable commentators, the legacy of Ronald Reagan is being trashed by a new kind of isolationism. Largely spearheaded by Fox News commentator Tucker Carlson, the case for letting Putin help himself to Ukraine is growing, shattering the national security consensus that has dominated the right for seventy years. At the same time, the modern...

Hillary has set herself up in a zero-sum game with Joe Biden that no other Democrat is willing to pursue. With the rest of the Party and the hopefuls for 2024 reluctant to turn on Biden and afraid to confront the extreme left, Hillary is becoming the sole source supplier of such a position. She recognizes that no other prominent Democrat will be willing to take on the left because they all frightened of it. Whether they are senators and governors who will have to pass through primary elections to get renominated or potential presidential candidates who must win primaries...

​Dick Morris, a onetime top adviser to former President Bill Clinton, says there’s a “good chance” of a 2024 rematch between Hillary Clinton and ex-President Donald Trump. Morris said Sunday that if Democrats lose control of Congress in the 2022 midterm elections, President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris will be toast — paving the way for a second Hillary bid, with husband Bill playing an architect to her strategy.

Having thrown away what little leverage the Republican Party has in this one-party government, GOP Senate leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky) compounded his felony by rolling over once again in the face of Democratic efforts to raise the debt limit with no conditions attached. Democrats, of course, can raise the limit anytime they want because they would not need a filibuster proof majority for a budget bill under the Byrd Rule. But they want to share the blame for doing so with Republicans, so they won’t raise the debt limit alone. And, obliging as ever, McConnell caved in and agreed to...