Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg may be “cooking up” a plot with former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to secure Hillary the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, according to insiders.
The scenario of Bloomberg conspiring to hand the presidential nomination to Hillary is not as unrealistic as Democratic Party outsiders may think, according to Dick Morris, a former adviser to Bill Clinton.
Morris worked for Clinton’s White House in the 1990s and, before that, was an adviser during Bill Clinton’s time as Arkansas governor.
According to former White House communications director George Stephanopoulos, “over the course of the first nine months of 1995, no single person had more power over the president, and therefore over the government, than Dick Morris — no question about it.”
In other words, Morris isn’t a political fringe conspiracy theorist.
He is a well-known Clinton insider — and he says Hillary is heading back for a rematch with President Donald Trump, thanks to Bloomberg.
“Here’s the deal that I think is going down,” Morris said in a recent radio appearance. “I think Hillary and Bloomberg have gotten together and cooked up a scheme.”
In an effort to stop Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-V.T., Morris said that Bloomberg will stay in the race after Super Tuesday and force a brokered presidential nomination at this summer’s Democratic National Convention — even if he has no path to victory.
“Nobody will be nominated on the first ballot, and it’ll go to a second ballot,” Morris told The Cats Roundtable radio show on Sunday. “The problem is that the party establishment doesn’t have a candidate.”
“They can’t do Bloomberg because he got killed in the debate. … Can’t do [former Vice President Joe] Biden because he’s already lost the front-runner status. … [former South Bend Mayor Pete] Buttigieg looks like a high school kid at the Model UN. … [Sen. Elizabeth] Warren is third, but she’s pretty far to the left, and they’re not going to want to trust her.”
With no clear frontrunner, Democratic insiders will begin to look for a known asset, Morris said.
“Then, Hillary begins to gain; the other candidates begin to drop out,” he said. “And Hillary is the nominee. That, I think, is the establishment scenario.”
“Hillary is the only candidate that they’ll be able to come up with that can measure up to Donald Trump,” Morris concluded.
Morris is one of many well-connected political experts that have predicted Hillary’s entrance into the 2020 Democratic presidential campaign. Former White House adviser Steve Bannon said it was a matter of when, not if, Hillary joined the race.
In early February, she admitted that she had toyed with the idea of accepting a Vice Presidential nomination.
“Never say never,” Hillary told television talk show host Ellen — though she later denied rumors that she’d been in talks with Bloomberg’s campaign.
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