Democrats have some issues in trying to hold back former Republican Mike Bloomberg and trying to beat President Donald Trump, causing a rare move to the right, according to former Clinton pollster Dick Morris.
"There has been a clear movement to the right and the Democratic primary electorate, which is totally new," Morris told Sunday's "The Cats Roundtable" on 970 AM-N.Y. "It's always been a truism that the left-wing candidate always wins the Democratic primary. Right now, I doubt that."
Bloomberg, for instance, is injecting his own billions into the race and Democratic primary leaders like Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., Pete Buttigieg and Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., are afraid to attack him in fear of reprisal from a big-budget ad campaign – "in one day he can do as much as somebody else would do in two weeks" – Morris told host John Catsimatidis.
"Sanders, Klobuchar and Buttigieg are not going to start hitting Bloomberg because they're scared he'll come at them with a couple of billion dollars of negative ads, 10 days or two weeks before Super Tuesday," Morris said.
"Bloomberg can sneak right up the middle and run without anybody touching him."
But, if the far-left candidate Sanders does manage to beat back Bloomberg, it will fracture the party and allow Trump to "win it in a walk," according to Morris.
"If Sanders wins on delegates and Bloomberg [then] uses super delegates to win, the Democratic Party will be split as it has never been since 1968," Morris said. "Forget about the election. Trump will win it in a walk."
Notably dismissing Joe Biden, Morris reminded Catsimatidis he had predicted Biden's demise last year on his show.
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