SPECIAL | Allan Lichtman shares his 2024 presidential election prediction
The Excerpt
USA TODAY
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🗓️ 3 October 2024
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Who will win this razor-tight presidential election in November? Well, it depends on who you ask. Historian Allan Lichtman has accurately predicted the outcome of 9 out of the last 10 presidential elections, and he’s done it without the use of polling data. Instead, he uses a set of 13 keys to make his predictions. And, yes, he is almost always right. Who does he predict will win in November? Allan Lichtman, historian and professor at American University, joins us on The Excerpt to discuss his prediction and why his pick almost always emerges the winner.
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| 0:08.0 | Hello and welcome to The Excerpt., 2024 and this is a special episode of the |
| 0:19.3 | excerpt. The old Who will win this razor-type presidential election in November? |
| 0:28.3 | Well, it depends on who you ask. |
| 0:30.3 | Historian Alan Lickman has accurately predicted the outcome of nine out of the last ten presidential |
| 0:36.4 | elections and he's done it without the use of polling data. |
| 0:39.8 | Instead he uses a set of 13 keys to make his predictions. |
| 0:44.1 | And yes, he is almost always right. |
| 0:47.3 | Who does he predict will win in November? |
| 0:50.2 | Here to discuss is Alan Lickman, historian and professor at American University. |
| 0:55.6 | Thanks for joining me, Alan. |
| 0:57.1 | My pleasure. |
| 0:58.3 | So let's start with the million dollar question. |
| 1:00.9 | Who do you think will win in November? It's not who I think, it's who my system, the 13 |
| 1:08.7 | keys to the White House predicts. And according to the keys to the White House we are going to have a new and |
| 1:16.0 | path-breaking American president. |
| 1:18.4 | Kamala Harris will become the first woman president of the United States, at least cracking if not |
| 1:25.6 | shattering the glass ceiling, and she'll become the first American president of |
| 1:30.6 | mixed African and East Asian descent kind of |
| 1:34.8 | foreshadowing where our country is going. |
| 1:37.9 | We are rapidly becoming a majority minority country. |
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