"I'm a never Hillary and I'm a provisional Trump," said Matalin, who is married to Democratic strategist and Clinton surrogate James Carville, in an interview with Bloomberg Politics' "With All Due Respect."

Matalin said she likes Trump's "attitude" and "strategic chutzpah."

"I like that he had the gall to put macro messaging over micro targeting, and I like what I know about his economic policy," she said. "I just don't know enough. I think he could not only win, he would win in [a] landslide if he could stop his high school boy antics with women."

If Trump cannot overcome that, she said, "he's going to force suburban women to Hillary."

"I think he can peel off some African-Americans, some nontraditional, millennial voters if he runs the jobs message," she added. "I think he would be great if he reins it in a little bit."