Author: Dick Morris

One thing is abundantly clear: Neither political party will emerge from the 2016 nomination battle looking anything like they did when they began the marathon. Fundamental changes are now inevitable in both political parties. And they will be irreversible. These changes will not be so much in how the ethnic or geographic constituencies divide themselves […]

Polling begun and completed after the March 10 debate shows radical changes in Ohio and Illinois ahead of their March 15 primaries. In both primaries, Ted Cruz is surging on the strength of a strong debate performance. In Ohio, a winner take all primary with 66 delegates on the line, the latest poll by CBS […]

Episodic evidence suggests the possibility of a Donald Trump implosion during March. In the latest ABC/Wash Post poll, he wins 34 percent of the national vote — 4 points below his RealClearPolitics.com average of the last five polls — while Ted Cruz runs second with 25 percent — six points above his average Rubio runs […]

Amid the celebrations of the successful Dunkirk evacuation of World War II, saving most of the British and much of the French Army, Prime Minister Winston Churchill cooled the festivities by saying “This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.” […]

The Republican Party has long been led by the rich and the powerful who win elections by persuading the lowly and powerless to vote for them. Ever since the early Roman Republic, when the Plebeians were pitted against the Patricians, the rich politician’s goal has always been to land the poor vote to win. They […]

Now that Chris Christie has crashed, John Kasich has been ghettoized, Scott Walker self-destructed, and nobody bought the idea of Jeb Bush, all the king’s horses and all the king’s men — as well as Fox News — are trying to shove Marco Rubio down the throats of the Republican electorate. But they’ll never make […]

On Tuesday, March 1, millions of Republican primary voters will likely cast wasted ballots, causing a massive wave of anger and discontent. In the March 1 primaries — choosing about one-third of the delegates in each party — most states will divide their delegates in proportion to the candidates who exceed a minimum threshold of […]

Hillary Clinton’s campaign is falling apart. Bernie Sanders soared in New Hampshire and now two polls have him tying her nationally. It’s a disaster. Now she’s called in the B-team: The cynical, paranoid, and wacky twins — Sidney Blumenthal and David Brock — to bail her out. And here comes the elderly, diminished and livid […]

As Hillary Clinton underwhelms in Iowa, barely eking out of a tie with Bernie Sanders — a thought that would have been ridiculous six months ago — her supporters cling to the hope that she has a firewall in the later primaries due to her preponderance of support from African-American voters. While Sanders has been […]

The latest Fox News poll shows Bernie Sanders gaining 19 points against Clinton nationally among black voters. In the Fox News poll of January 4th, Hillary Clinton bested Sanders among black voters by 71-20. But on January 24th, Sanders had closed much of the gap and trailed by only 59-27. As Hillary Clinton fights to […]

When will some of the dozen or so Republican candidates withdraw so we can focus on a two-way race and make a clear decision? Will Rubio, Kasich, Bush, Christie, Carson, Fiorina, Huckabee, Paul, Santorum et al ever get the message and pull out? They won’t have to. The party rules will force them out, de […]

Two recent developments have transformed Hillary Clinton’s email scandal into a potentially deadly issue. Yesterday, the Inspector General for the Intelligence Community wrote to Senator Richard Burr, R., NC, Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, to inform him that he had received “two sworn declarations from one [intelligence community] element. These declarations cover several dozen […]

As we revisit the exploits of Saturday Night Bill and listen to biographer Taylor Branch’s taped private rumination after his series of interviews with the former president, the obvious question arises: Was the 42nd president a sociopath? Sociopaths are often characterized as people who lack a conscience and never feel remorse about their actions, even […]

One thing Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump have in common — they both like to have big things named after them. The latest batch of emails released by the State Department uncovers a massive ego trip by the former secretary of state. Anxious to etch her name in glass, as well as in history, she […]

On the heels of polls showing Bernie Sanders chopping 15 points off Clinton’s lead in Iowa — narrowing her advantage to 50-45 — Hillary Clinton has sent out an email to her supporters today warning them to brace themselves for the chance that she might lose Iowa or New Hampshire. In a highly unusual email […]

The latest Rasmussen Reports poll, taken right after the third and most recent Democratic debate, shows that Hillary Clinton has lost crucial ground in the Democratic nomination battle. Before the debate, Rasmussen had her defeating Bernie Sanders by 50-29 (a margin of 21). Now her lead is down to 16 points — 46-30. Her four-point […]

Money doesn’t matter … much. In this year’s Republican nominating race, the standing of the candidates is in inverse relationship to the amount of money they have spent. Earlier this month, the front-runner, Donald Trump, had spent about $220,000 on television advertising. His runner-up, Ted Cruz, had invested just shy of $1 million. In third […]

Last week, on the Charlie Rose show, former Obama CIA Director Mike Morell dropped a bombshell that was little noticed by the media. He said that it seemed the reason President Obama did not bomb the oil fields now controlled by ISIS in Iraq and Syria was that he did not want to cause environmental […]

It’s time for Governor Chris Christie to drop out of this cluttered, overcrowded race for president. Polling data out this past weekend shows what a train wreck his campaign has been: The ABC News poll has him at just 2 percent. Last week, the Fairleigh Dickinson University poll of New Jersey voters have their “hometown” […]

In the wake of the ISIS attacks, Donald Trump has moved to a clear lead over Ben Carson and the rest of the GOP field. Carson’s laidback style and his reluctance to use force against terrorism — he said that he would not have sent troops to Afghanistan after 9/11 — is costing him support […]

Sometimes a candidate must fit his talents and image to suit the needs of the day. At other times, the dominant issue rises to demand just the skill set he already has. Who knows what the future holds, but America, the West and the GOP need Donald Trump’s leadership right now. The Paris bombings beg […]

The Paris attacks could have the effect of empowering the Bernie Sanders campaign and confronting Hillary Clinton with an unsolvable dilemma. The vicious attacks will trigger demands by reasonable Americans for an increased commitment to defeating ISIS. Many, like me, will call for a Third Gulf War to battle for civilization. But the left wing […]

The attacks in Paris reflect what happens when a terrorist gang takes over a country. Just as with al-Qaida and the Taliban, if you put a nation at the disposal of fanatical terrorists, major acts of terrorism become almost inevitable. A terror gang is like an HIV virus. It swims into our bloodstreams, doing no […]

Donald Trump, Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio strengthened themselves in the fourth Republican Party debate, which was held in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, last night. Trump regained his former form — irreverent, blunt, feisty, fearless and strong. He dished out red meat all night. His best moments were in his dissection of the excuses for granting amnesty, […]

Incredible as it may seem, MSNBC host Rachael Maddow managed to get though an entire two-hour Democratic forum where she questioned Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders and Martin O’Malley without once mentioning the email scandal or the FBI investigation of Clinton. Not even one mention! Did Clinton demand that Maddow avoid the topic as a condition […]

What happened to the email scandal? Or the cost of Hillary Clinton’s and Bill Clinton’s speeches? Or the Uranium deal where President Putin got control of our mines? Or Hillary Clinton’s lie about Benghazi being caused by a video? Or any of the scandals the media pursued with such zest and vigor until last week? […]

On the Rachel Maddow Show, Hillary Clinton said that it was the threat of a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage that led Bill Clinton to sign the Defense of Marriage Act.   This statement is totally untrue. I was there and there was never any discussion of a constitutional amendment on the subject. The president […]

I have all the respect in the world for Ben Carson. For only the second time in American politics, we would have a president who made his name outside of politics prior to his election if he won. (The first, for trivia fans, is Herbert Hoover as an engineer). He is humble, virtuous, honest, reliable, […]

With apologies to Bob Dylan, you can’t tell which way the wind is blowing without a weather vane, particularly if you are indoors looking out. We had no way of knowing what was happening in the bowels of the Justice Department and the White House before Joe Biden decided not to run. Now, we know: […]

The filings last week of campaign finances reveal that Sanders has $27 million cash on hand, just slightly short of Hillary Clinton’s $33 million. When funds earmarked for the general election are subtracted from each total, the gap will probably be even narrower. Clinton has outraised Sanders by more than 2:1, but she has spent […]