Author: Dick Morris

At the very start of the NBC forum on national security affairs, Matt Lauer asked Hillary Clinton what were the qualities she thinks are most important in a commander in chief. She cited steadiness, willingness to listen to others and to evaluate what they say, temperament and judgment as key. Then, she proceeded to flunk […]

Hillary Clinton hasn’t noticed that she is locked in a four-way race and not the two-way struggle with Donald Trump for which she and her strategists have been preparing. The very premise of Clinton’s campaign — to denigrate Trump — is rooted in the flawed assumption that those she persuades not to vote for Trump […]

Are you wondering whether Donald Trump can win? Damn right he can. In fact, in the past week and a half he’s been winning. He’s moved up in all polls and is tied or ahead in the two online polls (Zogby and L.A. Times/USC). He’s stopped making mistakes and, without his gaffes to highlight, Hillary […]

The media is filled with speculation that your campaign is sinking. But I believe that inherent in Hillary Clinton’s rise are the seeds of her own destruction, and of your eventual election. As Clinton — with the aid of a hopelessly biased media — struggles to convince people that your candidacy is unworthy of serious […]

While the media love to focus on the perceived “gaffes” and “blunders” of Donald Trump, the voters are increasingly more interested in the unfolding evidence of a pay-for-play bribery scheme at the Clinton Foundation. The nature of the scheme became evident earlier this week in a newly released email from Doug Band, President Bill Clinton’s […]

To qualify for inclusion in the fall presidential debates, a candidate needs at least 15 percent in the national polls. Libertarian Gary Johnson is now at 7.4 percent in the RealClearPolitics.com average of recent polls, up from 4.5 percent on June 13. As popular discontent with both of the major party candidates spreads, the chances […]

The two conventions now assembling have diametrically opposite strategies, caused by their differing political needs. Donald Trump is in trouble because of how he acts. Hillary Clinton is in trouble because of what she’s done. The goal of the Republican Convention is to show Trump acting presidential yet passionate. Well-informed yet focused on key issues. […]

When President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton conceived of a private insurance-based, government-subsidized scheme for medical care, they knew it was only a halfway house toward their ultimate goal: socialized medicine. Obama announced as much. Now Clinton is taking the inevitable next step and backing government-controlled medicine for those over 55. The Obama-Clinton strategy was […]

FBI Director James Comey testified before Congress Thursday, July 7, that Hillary Clinton lied when she said that she neither sent nor received classified material. And that she lied when she said that nothing was marked classified on the emails on her server. And that she lied when she said her server was not hacked. […]

What did Bill Clinton promise Loretta Lynch during their tete-a-tete on her plane as it sat on the tarmac in Phoenix, Arizona? Did they restrict their conversation to their grandchildren, travel and golf as she claims?” Or did Clinton, by body language or something stronger, indicate that a President Hillary Clinton might want to keep […]

Donald Trump is not in nearly the trouble that the media and the elders in the Republican Party make him out to be. The national polls have in four or five points behind Hillary Clinton. Big deal! Even this small Clinton lead just reflects the natural bump Clinton got by winning the nomination. Trump had […]

Every time Mitt Romney attacks Donald Trump, the liberal media wrings its hands speculating on whether a rift is developing in the Republican Party that could sink its chances of winning in November. Media critics pile on Trump, urging him to trim his sails and return to the Eleventh Commandment, given to us by Ronald […]

The gender gap, a reality of American politics since the Roe v. Wade decision almost 50 years ago, is defining this 2016 election. But it is a different sort of gender gap — it originates with male voters, not women. According to Fox News polls, Hillary Clinton is running 14 points ahead among women, down […]

In the past few days, Hillary Clinton has fallen behind Donald Trump in a number of major national polls. But the worse news for her is that her losses are almost entirely among women voters. Women are emerging as the moving pieces in this year’s presidential election. In April, Fox News showed Clinton beating Trump […]

Donald Trump is not only changing the Republican Party, he is causing an overall partisan realignment in America, which impacts the Democrats as well. The Sanders campaign shows how far from its populist roots the Democratic Party has strayed. Trump’s victory over the GOP field shows the same thing about the Republican Party. He is […]

The new Quinnipiac Poll showing Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton essentially tied in Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania has sent the chattering class into collective shock. The same Washington insiders who insisted that Trump could never win the nomination may now want to rethink their equally stubborn insistence that he can’t win the election. The polls […]

The difference between Carly Fiorina’s and Hillary Clinton’s assents to prominence is a lesson that compares that authentic and inauthentic models of feminism. Fiorina earned everything she has gotten. She started as a secretary and worked her way up the corporate ladder — through twists and diversions — until she came out on top as […]

Thinks look bleak right now for Ted Cruz. And for Donald Trump. Both will have to pass through a narrow needle to thread their way to the nomination. But one of them will do it. There will be no white knight, and John Kasich’s fantasies of a third or fourth ballot nomination are just that, […]

Donald Trump’s rise and resilience is unique in our modern political history. He seems almost to be the default setting for the Republican primary voter. If he screws up on television, a few supporters leave him for a few weeks. If Ted Cruz spends millions on ads and has every endorsement in the state (Wisconsin), […]

Question: Why in John Kasich still in the race for the Republican nomination? Answer: To be Donald Trump’s vice president. Question: So why is he still fighting for delegates? Answer: To have a dowry to present to Trump in return for the vice presidential nomination. The nuptials are scheduled for July 18 in Cleveland. Save […]

After Ted Cruz’s smashing win in Wisconsin, it’s on to New York. Will the Empire State break Cruz’s momentum and give Donald Trump back his lead? The key lies in the rules. Fourteen of New York’s 95 delegates will be elected at large and the remaining 81 will be chosen with three allocated to each […]

The McClatchy/Marist poll of March 31, released on Wednesday, shows Bernie Sanders two points ahead of Hillary Clinton nationally (49-47). This poll, of course, was taken before Sanders’ win in Wisconsin. With all the Democratic primaries allocating delegates based on proportional distribution, national popular vote polling has a distinct relevance to future contests. A pattern […]

The Supreme Court decision in Evenwel v. Abbott, harkens back to how our original Constitution enshrined slavery in power until the Civil War. The Evenwel decision holds that states may apportion districts — and presumably Congress can apportion Congressional representation — based on total population rather than based on those eligible to vote. So immigrants […]

Donald Trump is most likely to win the GOP nomination. But Ted Cruz definitely has a path to victory if he can win key contests. Trump’s current delegate lead over Cruz and John Kasich (Trump — 739, Cruz — 465, Kasich — 143) is more apparent than real. At some point, Marco Rubio is likely […]

Love him or hate him — and mostly they love him — Donald Trump’s candidacy will have increased Republican primary turnout by 14 million votes over the 2012 levels. With a bit more than half the primaries completed, 19.4 million people have voted thus far in GOP primaries, slightly more than the total of 19.3 […]

Like the eye of a hurricane, the Republican nominating process now enters halftime. After Tuesday’s primaries in Arizona and Utah (96 delegates combined), we enter a lull period in which only the Wisconsin contest on April 5 interrupts a four-week primary-free period. It ends with a bang on April 19 when New York votes. This […]