The historian who correctly predicted 9 of the last 10 presidential elections picks Harris, still
By Sam Woodward
Democratic nominee Kamal Harris will be the next president of the United States and beat Republican rival Donald Trump on Election Day, or so historians and election forecaster Allan Lichtman still predicts.
Known for correctly predicting the results of the last nine out of 10 presidential elections, Lichtman said in his YouTube channel Tuesday night that his prediction has not changed, despite Democratic nominee Harris' leads in battleground states shrinking and pols being nail-biting close.
"Nothing has changed to change my prediction that I made on Sept. 5," Lichtman said, "in defiance of the polls."
Lichtman has come under fire for his predictions, notably with political pollster Nate Silver last month calling the American University modern history professor's keys "totally arbitrary" in a post on X.
He emphasized Tuesday that the 13 keys he uses to make his predictions have not changed and criticized the prevalence of polling in the media, saying that governing, rather than campaigning, is indicative of who will win the 2024 race for the White House.
"I don't have a crystal ball, I'm not Speaker Mike Johnson who thinks he has a pipeline to the Almighty, my system is based on history, it's very robust, but it's always possible, you can't know it in advance that 'd there’d be something so cataclysmic and so unprecedented to break the pattern of history," Lichtman said, but that "doesn't mean my prediction is invalidated."
Lichtman's son Sam interviewed his father during the 90-minute live video, where the election prognosticator argued that democracy itself is at stake in this year's White House race.
Before every election, Lichtman said he gets butterflies, but this year is different.
"I have a flock of crows in my stomach," he said.
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