Hillary Clinton told Sky News in the U.K. that Joe Biden will easily beat Donald Trump for re-election. Trump’s legal woes have made him unpalatable for a large swatch of Americans.
She told host Beth Rigby that Trump’s “Lock Her Up” taunts were projection.
“He accuses people of doing things he himself is doing. It’s a form of psychological projection, and I always thought that his record in business in particular, but then as we saw him in politics and government, he was someone who cared nothing about rules. He cared nothing about the law,” Clinton said.
Trump supporters used the taunts against her due to illicit use of a homebrew server she used while she was secretary of State of State. She claimed that her server has “zero” classified emails on it, which Politifact rated as a half-true claim.
Polling shows that his performance among Independents was harmed by his indictment in Manhattan Criminal Court last month on business fraud charges linked to the payoff of Stormy Daniels.
“Currently, just over half of Americans (52%) view the charges against Trump as serious (was 50% last week). Additionally, half of Americans (50%) say Trump should have been charged with a crime in this case, up five percentage points from last week. The slight changes in both cases look to be drawing from people who said ‘don’t know’ in the earlier survey, a number that is down six percentage points in both questions,” Ipsos said in its press release about the latest poll of 566 adults conducted on April 6-7.
And 47% said they thought that Trump should suspend his campaign due to the indictment.
Clinton told Rigby that nothing in the American system prevents Trump from running for president while under indictment.
“Even if he gets the Republican nomination he cannot in my view be re-elected president,” Clinton said. “More people are onto him and his behavior than they were before. He has a hard core of support that is likely to help him win the Republican nomination, but in a general election against President Biden I do not believe he can win.”
She similarly was dismissive of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ chances against Biden, saying he was largely unknown outside of Florida.
Polling showed Biden beating Trump in key swing states; however, DeSantis beat Biden in those same states, according to Interactive Polls.
In Arizona, Biden beats Trump by a 44% to 42% margin: however, DeSantis wins 45% to 41%. In Georgia where Trump faces indictment for allegedly intimidating state election officials, Biden beats Trump 45% to 44%, while DeSantis beats Biden 47% to 45%. In North Carolina, which Trump won in 2020, Biden beats Trump 45% to 44%. In Pennsylvania, Biden trounces Trump 46% to 44%, and DeSantis beats Biden 45% to 44%.
“I really think that President Biden will be re-elected regardless of who the Republican nominee is,” Clinton said.
DeSantis showed in Florida that he can win in Democratic areas and in places where Trump performs poorly; however, Trump’s solid lock on the Republican electorate means that such trial heats do not mean much. Trump goes into 2024 as a candidate with the wind in his face and underwater with the key demographic he needs to win in November: Independents.
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John Rossomando was a senior analyst for Defense Policy and served as Senior Analyst for Counterterrorism at The Investigative Project on Terrorism for eight years. His work has been featured in numerous publications such as The American Thinker, Daily Wire, Red Alert Politics, CNSNews.com, The Daily Caller, Human Events, Newsmax, The American Spectator, TownHall.com, and Crisis Magazine. He also served as senior managing editor of The Bulletin, a 100,000-circulation daily newspaper in Philadelphia, and received the Pennsylvania Associated Press Managing Editors first-place award in 2008 for his reporting.
