President Joe Biden will run for reelection in 2024 because of the "momentum protecting the "sycophants around him," political commentator Dick Morris said Monday on Newsmax.
In an interview on Newsmax's "John Bachman Now," Morris discounted substantial support for a second Biden presidential term.
"Momentum protecting the sycophants around him who depend on him for their jobs," Morris said mockingly of Biden's support. "And frankly for them, it's a great presidency because they get to be president. They can manipulate him any way they want."
According to Morris, what may be more worrisome for Biden is his weak support from Democrat voters.
"The most significant number that I think is out there and obviously rattling Biden is that only 25% of Democratic primary voters would vote for Biden in [a] contested renomination primary," Morris said about recent polls.
"By contrast, the number for [former President Donald] Trump is 76%. And when he's losing three quarters of the vote of Democratic primary voters — [Vice President Kamala] Harris would get 6%, Michelle Obama would get 24%, [Transportation Secretary Pete] Buttigieg gets 8%."
Morris said what verifies Biden's concern about losing reelection is "the shenanigans the Democrats went through last week to re-juggle the order of the primaries."
"Biden is president only because of South Carolina, where he had lost New Hampshire, Nevada, and Iowa," Morris noted. "And then he came to South Carolina and Rep. James Clyburn, the Black leader of the state, endorsed him heavily. He won South Carolina and just three days later …the Super Tuesday states that are heavily Black. And they all voted for Biden, and they get the nomination."
But this time, Morris said, "they're trying to rejigger the primary so that South Carolina's first and then Michigan and Georgia second [in the primaries]."
Morris said Biden "is a primary fight waiting to happen."
"I think you could take any of these 14 or 15 other candidates who are out there who are getting tiny boat chairs — Hillary Clinton and Michelle Obama, Pete Buttigieg, [Massachusetts Sen.] Elizabeth Warren, [Vermont independent Sen.] Bernie Sanders. … if any of those folks come out and challenge Biden, they can win."
Morris declared Biden's support would "collapse very quickly because he never really had it to begin with."
"The only place that he can be solidly sure of winning other than Delaware is Washington, D.C. So he's very, very vulnerable to a primary challenge," Morris said, adding: "He's hoping the State of the Union gives him a bounce, but it's like looking for a bounce in quicksand because his ratings are so bad, and there's a [Chinese spy] balloon shadow" over him.
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