Real estate billionaire Donald Trump will easily outshine his top GOP presidential rivals, Jeb Bush and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, in the first debate of Republican contenders Thursday night, according to political analyst Dick Morris.
In an interview Tuesday with "Newsmax Now" host John Bachman on
Newsmax TV, the author of
"Power Grab," said Trump "occupies the no-man's land."
"Of those three, well, Trump [will do better] because he can't help himself," Morris said.
"Donald occupies the no-man's land, which is between the things we all know are true and the politicians can't admit are true."
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Morris added Texas Sen. Ted Cruz will have "the most interesting… mission."
"If there's one thing that defines Republicans today it's feeling that we go out, we work our butts off, we win an election and the people we elect sell us down the river," he said.
"We elect [House Speaker John] Boehner, we elect [Senate Majority Leader Mitch] McConnell, we take the House, we take the Senate and then they cut every deal in the world with [President Barack] Obama and give him powers even he isn't asking for."
"We're tired of that," Morris said. "Cruz's message will be,' if I win, we will really win like we did with [Ronald] Reagan, not like we did with Boehner and McConnell'."
On the Democratic side, Morris said Vice President Joe Biden, should he decide to seek the nomination, and current front-runner Hillary Clinton, will both wind up vying for the support of Obama.
"There has to be a certain amount of monogamy in politics and I don't think both Hillary and Biden can make it as Barack Obama's one true love," he said. "One of them is going to win that and the other will lose it and the one that wins it — which will be Biden because he lives there — will be straight in line with what Obama wants.
"That leaves Hillary to say …'we could do this better, this has to change, that's wrong.'
Every time she does that, which she's going to have to do to differentiate herself from Biden… it's going to alienate Obama who is thin-skinned, and it's going to drive a rift between Obama and Hillary," he said.
"The real problem that Hillary has with Biden's entry is how to stop it from becoming Hillary vs. Obama – and in the course… losing Obama's base and therefore the primary," he added.
Morris said there's "a feeling among the Obama true believers" that when President Bill Clinton and First Lady Hillary Clinton were in power in the 1990s, "they moved to the center and they sold us out – almost the mirror image of what we were just discussing that Ted Cruz is saying about the Republicans under Boehner."
"There's a sense 'we want someone who's going to be a true believer and hang in there for us and we do not trust Hillary Clinton'," he said.
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