Dick Morris: People See a New Donald Trump Emerging

responding appropriately to the health crisis

By Brian Freeman    |   Sunday, 29 March 2020 04:25 PM

President Donald Trump's handling of the coronavirus crisis has displayed a positive side of him that many had not acknowledged before, political commentator Dick Morris said on Sunday.

Speaking on "The Cats Roundtable" radio show on AM 970 in New York hosted by John Catsimatidis, Morris said that "people are seeing a Donald Trump they have not seen before" and
argued that "he doesn't act like Trump usually does. He doesn't take shots at people. He doesn't set up polarizing debates. He hasn't hogged the stage. He listens to his experts, clearly."


Morris, who was a political advisor to President Bill Clinton before returning to the Republican Party in 2011, said this has created "a big change in the way the voters view" the president and has served as "an amazing boost to Donald Trump's electability."

Morris predicted that if the worst-case scenario does not develop and instead the virus fades by May and the economy bounces back, it "will produce the biggest presidential victory in modern times" for Trump.

Morris contended that "the presidency forces people to grow. I believe Trump has grown new abilities and new talents and, frankly, new wisdom."

He said this contrasts sharply to the "disappearance" of likely Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden.

Morris said Trump and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo "have literally sucked up all the oxygen in the room. It's so interesting to see the disappearance of Joe Biden, and, frankly, the disappearance of the Democratic candidates for president."

Morris said, however, that there is "no way that Biden can be defeated at the [Democratic] convention or that Cuomo can mount a challenge. Legally, the delegates that have been selected are bound to [Biden] and have to vote for him as long as he wants them to vote for him."