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One of then-President Bill Clinton’s top advisers believes the 2024 presidential election is essentially all but decided.
In an interview with Newsmax TV’s “Wake Up America” program on Sunday, Dick Morris predicted that former President Donald Trump would not only win the White House once again, but he will do so without anyone challenging him for the 2024 GOP nomination.
“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 said. “I think he’ll actually get it by acclamation. I don’t think there’ll be a primary fight.”
All of the talk about Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis being a top challenger to Trump for the nomination is just that, talk, he told host Katrina Szish.
“Well, there’s a lot of Republicans who have sort of the 6-year itch,” Morris said. “You’ve heard of the 7-year itch. It’s been six years of Trump, but they’re flirting with DeSantis and other candidates, but only Trump can win this election.”
He went on to explain how he believes Trump not only has advantages over other potential GOP challengers but also how he’s uniquely situated to beat the current Democratic administration.
“First of all, only Trump can say, ‘I did it: You want to know if I can cut inflation or hold down gas prices, seal the border? I did it when I was president,'” Morris said. “So he’s sort of a hybrid: He’s half incumbent and half challenger.
“And secondly, he has an access to the Hispanic vote and to the white, high school-educated vote that other candidates really don’t have, and that gives him a tremendous capacity. So I think that only Trump can win, but don’t let it bother you DeSantis is not going to run,” Morris added.
Morris, who advised Trump in 2016 and again in 2020, referenced his new book, where he laid out how Trump will win again.
“The purpose of my book ‘The Return’ is to really explain how we’re going to do it. We are going to wage a campaign in ’24 totally unlike the campaign we waged in 2020, profiting from some of the mistakes that we made,” he said.
“For example, we left ourselves very much open to ballot fraud. And we hustled like crazy to get out all committed interested voters who could vote Republican. We got 11 million more than we got in ’16. But the Democrats just sat back and got the couch potatoes,” he continued.
It should be noted that all 50 states certified their electoral results and that none of them found any widespread vote fraud.
“They went toward the door with ballot boxes and paper ballots, and every pizza delivery boy will tell you that home delivery beats go ordering out, and we are going to do home delivery in ’24. We’re going to go door to door, person to person and bring the ballot to them, rather than asking them to go out and get the ballot,” Morris continued.
He went on to outline a “two-part strategy” to install Republican secretaries of state during the 2022 midterms as well as a Supreme Court case regarding election authority being placed in the hands of state legislatures – where the Constitution prescribes – and not Democrat governors and courts.
“So in all of these swing states, we have Republican majorities in the legislature, but Democrat governors keep vetoing laws to make dropboxes illegal and require photo ID and that sort of thing, but we’re going to use this clause in the Constitution in the lawsuit that court is going to hear next [session] called Moore v. [Harper], which will completely cut the governors out of the process,” he said. “It will be the legislature’s [authority].”
Morris also noted that his Trump relationship started when his father was “the best” real estate attorney Trump has ever had, adding that he spoke with the then-president every day during the 2020 presidential election.
“And I explain it all in this book, including anecdotes of discussions that we had that there were, I think, very significant,” Morris concluded.
