Despite being up significantly in national polling just weeks before ballots are cast, Hillary Clinton will lose the Democratic nomination for president. Again.
That’s the prediction from former Clinton advisor Dick Morris.
Appearing on Newsmax Wednesday, Morris said Clinton is currently losing to Sanders.
“This is the great unreported story of this vacation period,” Morris said on “The Steve Malzberg Show.”
“In Iowa for example, in the latest poll, she was ahead by only five points and before that she was ahead by 18. She’s been behind in New Hampshire continuously all December and the national polling shows that Sanders closed the gap to 16 points from 24 points because of the last debate.”
Morris believes her declining poll numbers are why she’s dispatching her husband, former President Bill Clinton, to the early states.
“More importantly, it’s why two or three days ago she sent out an email to her supporters saying we might lose in New Hampshire or Iowa — and we have to be prepared to dig down, work harder in the other states,” Morris said during another appearance. “She wouldn’t have written that if her polls weren’t going to hell in those states.”
Morris predicts the Democratic fight could go all the way to the summer convention.
“What may happen here is that if Sanders wins the first two primaries and then does well in the white primary states — not South Carolina, but the largely white ones — Sanders could beat her in all of those primaries,” Morris told Newsmax. “You could have a situation where she tries to win the nomination, steal it by getting the super delegates — all of whom believe that Sanders would be a disaster for the party.”
At this point in the 2008 race against Illinois Sen. Barack Obama, Clinton was leading 45% to Obama’s 27%, according to a December 2007 Gallup poll.
“If the race for the Democratic nomination narrows down to just Clinton and Obama, 55% of Democrats say they would prefer Clinton, while 38% would prefer Obama,” the company found.
Fast-forward to December 2015, CNN reports, “Overall, Clinton tops Sanders among registered voters who are Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents 50% to 34%.”
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