Rob Ford predicts Donald Trump is going to win Tuesday’s election!

Predicted, actually.

It was neat to re-read the late former mayor’s thoughts in June 2015 on Donald Trump entering the Republican presidential race. Rob, who died of cancer March 22 of this year, told me he thought Trump would gain the groundswell of support he enjoyed.

“Very few thought I would win the mayor’s race in 2010 and they were wrong,” said Ford.

He felt people underestimated him.

“People have said Donald Trump can’t do a lot of things and they underestimate him,” he said. “The thing with Mr. Trump is he has the business background but more importantly he connects with people. That is what is most important in politics.”

Trump and Ford met in Toronto in 2012.

“He’s a very nice guy,” said Ford. “He’s very laid back and low key. He’s also very kind as well as successful. Not many people can become billionaires. That is very difficult to do.”

Ford noted the media didn’t want him either but he persevered.

“A lot of the media were taking shots at (Trump) and making it out to be a joke but in the end it will be them who will be surprised,” Ford told me. “They can laugh all they want, but Mr. Trump is a very successful man and a very good candidate for president.”

He predicted if he did win the nomination, Trump “will be the next president.”

Stay tuned.

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On Tuesday we will find out if the sometimes smug and arrogant anti-Donald Trump crowd were right or wrong.

Not just about winning or losing, but on whether or not he should even be in the race at all — some even say it is irresponsible to call this a “horse race” because it’s easily going to Hillary Clinton.

The narrative all through the race was nothing but that from President Barack Obama to Hillary to their media party wing. They lampooned the Republican Party for not replacing the “clown.” They cited the Mexican border wall to the Muslim immigration ban to suggesting Trump was pushing Clinton’s assassination to the taped comments about women from 11 years ago and the allegations stemming from that.

The narrative was the election was in the bag for Hillary. A landslide. Their polls were showing this, the expert pundits were saying it and if you dared to say you were for Trump, you were shunned, shamed and told to shut up.

Why even have an election, was the talking point. But through all of this things were not connecting.

Trump was drawing huge crowds. Hillary was drawing flies — unless she got on stage at an Adele or Jennifer Lopez concert. And in so many communities there’s nothing but seas of blue signs. “I could not believe there was nothing but Trump signs,” said a pal, who sent me a picture as proof.

The only Hillary sign he could find was a Hillary for Prison one. I know there were real Hillary signs too because I saw one myself when I was in Buffalo.

WSYR-TV in Syracuse quoted Nikki Carroll of the Democratic Committee saying there weren’t as many because “Hillary pretty much has New York secured because it’s such a blue state, so it’s not worthwhile to focus as many campaign funds into a New York campaign.”

They don’t need signs.

Certainly, despite the FBI probe into her assistant’s emails and her own health questions, the polls the media rely on were showing Friday that Hillary going into the final weekend has a 46% to 40% lead. Polls Trump people like better show it nearly tied, with Fox reporting 46% for Hillary and 45% for Trump.

Another buddy of mine says Trump supporters are “delusional” and “living in a bubble” and are going to get a butt kicking.

We will find out Tuesday is those who laugh at Trump will enjoy the last chuckle or be eating serious crow.

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The good news is they aren’t shooting at each other. The bad news is they did just about everything else.

It has been an ugly American election campaign — all sides guilty.

The even better news it should come to an end Tuesday. Election day is what freedom and democracy are all about. That and the peaceful transition of power.

In other words, this election worked perfectly. The mud was slung but it still comes down to the American voter who gets to decide.

The lesson is for people to remember to respect your opponent and not dismiss, shame or ban them.

Anything can happen on vote day. Whatever they decide is the right decision. Either candidate will be fine as president. When it’s over, backers should not be ridiculing the opposition for expressing their democratic right but embracing them.

We don’t shoot each other in our countries over political views. We vote!

Have a terrific weekend everybody. Scrawler out.

jwarmington@postmedia.com