Before the 2020 presidential election, Dick Morris declared at Newsmax there was a “good shot” that Hillary Clinton would join the campaign. That didn’t work out, as so many Dick Morris predictions don’t. But hating the Clintons has been Morris’ meal ticket for years, so he’s already dragging out the Hillary-will-run-again thing for the 2024 election. He wrote in his Jan. 1 column:
How do you know if Hillary is gearing up for another presidential bid?
Her weather vane begins to twirl and points to the most advantageous direction for a candidacy. Following her ruminations and political gyrations is as accurate as monitoring polling data.
Lately, America’s disgust with the woke progressives is registering with her, and she gives evidence of tacking to the center. It is triangulation all over again. She told MSNBC’s Willie Geist that Democrats needed to do “some careful thinking about what wins elections, and not just in deep blue districts where a Democrat, and a liberal Democrat or so-called progressive Democrat, is going to win.”
[…]She is setting up the blame game for the likely Democrat losses even as they have not yet happened.
It looks like we are in for Hillary 3.0.
Never mind, of course, that Morris hasn’t been on speaking terms with anyone named Clinton for a good couple decades now, and he offered no actual evidence of Hillary moving toward a presidential campaign.
Despite that utter lack of evidence, Newsmax touted Morris pushing this claim again in a Jan. 16 article:
Ex-Clinton adviser Dick Morris told “The Cats Roundtable” radio show Sunday that there is a “good chance” the 2024 presidential election will be between former President Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.
Hillary “has set up a brilliant strategy,” a “zero-sum game, where the worse [Biden] does, the better she does, because she’s positioned herself as the Democratic alternative to Biden. Not just to Biden, but to the extreme left in the Democratic party,” Morris told host John Catsimatidis on WABC 770 AM.
Morris adds that among the Democratic frontrunners, there will be a Black candidate, likely Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., “a crazy left-wing candidate, probably AOC, and you’re gonna have Hillary.”
Clinton is a stronger candidate, says Morris, because of her focus on “pragmatism” and not “ideological issues.”
Writer Nick Koutsobinas tried to sell the idea that claiming that everyone else is doing it: “In the last week, multiple publications from The Wall Street Journal to CNN, from CNN to The Hill have all published stories spurring the idea of Hillary making a 2024 run.” But The Hill article was pure speculation, and the CNN item Koutsobinas linked to is a discussion spurred by the Hill article.
Morris may be perpetually wrong (and he has yet to apologize for the bogus election fraud conspiracy theories he embraced), but he knows what sells in order to keep his job as a (terrible) pundit: he just has to keep pushing the Clinton button.