*Election expert Allan Lichtman believes former First Lady Michelle Obama could win the 2020 election more so than any of the Democratic candidates presently running.
“She comes out extraordinarily well with the Democratic rank and file,” Lichtman said in an interview with the Daily Caller. “She has the charismatic potential. She has the pizzazz the [current] candidates don’t have. [Independent Vermont Sen.] Bernie Sanders has pizzazz, but he’s like Trump. He appeals only to a narrow slice of the electorate. He’s not a Franklin Delano Roosevelt or a Ronald Reagan.”
Lichtman, a professor at American University in Washington, D.C., is known for successfully predicting the outcome of most presidential elections. By implementing his 13 “keys” system, he predicted Trump’s election in 2016, and believes Michelle Obama could be a strong candidate against Trump.
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“There are rules that would prevent her from being nominated at the convention, but rules can be changed,” Lichtman said. “I think it’s a long shot, but I don’t think it’s out of the realm of possibility.”
Lichtman said the November election is “too close to call.”
“Democrats for decades thought they had solved the electability problem. Nominate a safe, experienced, proven, centrist candidate. Michael Dukakis in 1988, Al Gore in 2000, John Kerry in 2004, Clinton in 2016. Of course, what all those candidates had in common is they all lost. So traditional ideas of electability are not only meaningless, they’re misleading,” he added.
Lichtman also believes it’s possible that California Rep. Adam Schiff, the Democratic House Intelligence Committee chairman leading Trump’s impeachment proceedings, could enter the presidential race.
“I think you’ve seen the last of the old generation of Democrats. The Bidens, the Sanders, the [Democratic Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth] Warrens, people 70 years and older will not be in contention in 2024,” he said.
“You’re going to see a new generation of Democrats coming up. Maybe Adam Schiff, I could see [Democratic California Sen.] Kamala Harris, [Democratic New Jersey Sen.] Cory Booker, [former Housing and Urban Development Secretary] Julian Castro. The next generation that didn’t make it this time, I could see rising in 2024.”
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