Clinton associates have long whispered that the politically-trained daughter would be perfect for politics, but now an Obama expert who advises Fortune 500 firms on communications has bluntly predicted a continuation of the Clinton dynasty.

“It doesn’t matter if she keeps her new television job, or if she quits—Chelsea can do it,” says Gil Peretz, author of Obama’s Secrets, a book on how to communicate like the president. “She started to gain substantive political experience when she campaigned for her mother in 2008.