Maybe it's unwise to trust the predictions of a rabid, Trump-hating necromancer
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the chicken entrails have betrayed me
Moment ‘polling Nostradamus’ who predicted Kamala Harris would win election realizes he was wrong
Despite recent polls giving former President Donald Trump an edge in the 2024 presidential election, American University professor Dr. Allan Lichtman is standing by his prediction that Vice President Kamala Harris will come out on top.
Lichtman, 77, has been dubbed by some the election “Nostradamus” due to his track record of predicting nine of the past 10 presidential contests. In September, he went all in on a Democratic win.
“Nothing has changed to change my prediction that I made on September 5, deliberately before the supposed ‘pivotal’ Trump-Harris debate — according to the pundits — which proved to be pivotal not one bit, if you believe the polls,” Lichtman explained during a livestream Tuesday.
The prof revealed that he’s since been peppered with questions about whether he intends to switch his prediction in light of polls showing Trump edging in front of Harris in swing states.
The RealClearPolitics average of polls showed Trump, 78, leading Harris, 60, by 0.4% nationwide as of noon Wednesday, all but ensuring a Republican Electoral College victory if it comes to pass.
“This is the first moment of the night where I’ve lost hope a little bit,” Sam Lichtman said as media outlets called Pennsylvania for Trump.
The elder Lichtman rubbed his eyes, visibly frustrated by the data, and said: “Good thing I have nothing to do tomorrow. And I’m not doing any interviews.”
Lichtman, an American University professor widely known as the “Nostradamus” of US presidential elections, put his money on the VP this year despite polling data hinting another Trump presidency was in the cards.
The prof is the co-creator of the “Keys to the White House” metric, which entails 13 categories assessing the prospects of the two major-party candidates. This year, according to Lichtman, Harris had the edge in eight of those metrics, compared to Trump’s three.
As the livestream neared its end, with both Lichtmans growing noticeably frustrated by the numbers showing Trump ahead in all seven swing states, Allan Lichtman said there was “nothing positive” for Harris in the data.
“Oh, the democracy’s gone,” a defeated-sounding Lichtman said. “Once democracy’s gone, it’s almost impossible to recover. The way to recover is by the dictators losing wars.”
“It’s unfathomable,” Lichtman concluded the stream.
