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Anthony Scaramucci predicts 'humiliating loss' for Donald Trump in November

Donald Trump's former communications director believes the US President will "lose handily" in th...
Stephen McNeice
Stephen McNeice

13.45 31 Aug 2020


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Anthony Scaramucci predicts 'humiliating loss' for Donald Trump in November

Stephen McNeice
Stephen McNeice

13.45 31 Aug 2020


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Donald Trump's former communications director believes the US President will "lose handily" in the upcoming election, and has predicted it will be a "humiliating loss".

Anthony Scaramucci fell out with President Trump after being sacked just 10 days into his role back in 2017.

The former communications director has been a target for Donald Trump's Twitter attacks since then:

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There's now just over two months until Mr Trump faces his Democratic rival Joe Biden in the US 2020 election.

Mr Scaramucci, who funds an anti-Trump Republican group, told The Pat Kenny Show that he doesn't believe the incumbent will win.

Anthony Scaramucci predicts 'humiliating loss' for Donald Trump in November

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He argued that Mr Trump can't "make the map work" given his current polling numbers.

He observed: "People like me... very driven on data... we'll be up in the white ethnic area of Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania, with heavy campaigning, radio and TV in the last two or three weeks of the election.

"We'll see what happens, but he's going to lose.

"He's going to lose handily, and it will be an embarrassing and - in my prediction - humiliating loss."

'Breaking all norms'

Mr Scaramucci said he's a life-long Republican, but suggested that Mr Trump is "breaking all of the societal norms related to our government, including using the White House as a campaign platform".

He also argued that the presidency has made Mr Trump "more brittle", saying that he was more open to ideas during the 2016 presidential campaign.

He told Pat: "Back 20 years ago, I remember him as a charming person, a raconteur, an entertaining personality... a life at the party sort of person.

"Today's there's a brittleness to him. There's a closure of his mind to ideas, and I think it's related to insecurity."

Mr Scaramucci claimed that Mr Trump will deserve to lose for 'wrecking our alliances, wrecking our economies, and mishandling woefully the healthcare crisis'.

He said a number of conservative groups - such as the Lincoln Project - have emerged as Republicans opposed to Trump, and are now working together to back Joe Biden in November.

Polls have shown a vast majority of Republicans approving of Mr Trump's performance, but some commentators have argued that Mr Trump only needs to lose the support of 3-5% of Republicans to lose the election.

Mr Scaramucci says he believes more than 3-5% of the party's members will ultimately vote against their candidate.

Main image: File photo of Anthony Scaramucci. Picture by: CNP/SIPA USA/PA Images

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