Trump will lose according to crucial '13 keys' predictor | Allan Lichtman
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Sep 8, 2024
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The Crucial 'Thirteen Keys' predictor, that has accurately called US elections for 40 years, projects Trump will closely lose the 2024 election, Allan Lichtman tells #timesradio
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- the keys predict that kamla Harris will
- be the next president of the United
- States and Donald Trump will fail in his
- bid to regain the White House Professor
- Alan lickman is the distinguished
- professor of history in American
- University author of the keys to the
- White House and has correctly predicted
- the winner of each presidential race
- since 1984 using his 13 Keys system I'm
- going to let him explain a little bit
- more I'm delighted to be joined by
- Professor lickman now Professor welcome
- to the show thank you so much uh can we
- start before we get your prediction
- which everybody is keenly waiting to
- hear can you just describe your system
- for us you call it the 13 Keys what are
- the 13 Keys yes my system uh doesn't pay
- any attention to the pundits who have no
- scientific basis for their opinions it
- ignores the polls which are snapshots
- not predictors the 13 Keys tap into the
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- structure of how American presidential
- elections really work as votes up or
- down on the strength and performance of
- The White House party so they look at
- things like midterm elections incumbency
- internal party contest third parties
- policy change social unrest Scandal
- foreign slm military failures and
- successes and only two keys have
- anything to do with the candidates and
- they have very high threshold keys they
- ask whether the incumbent Party
- candidate is one of those once in a
- generation broadly inspirational
- transformational candidates and they ask
- whether the challenging Party candidate
- does not fulfill that because all the
- keys are phrased so an answer of true
- favors the reelection of the White House
- Party and if six or more keys are false
- they are predicted losers otherwise they
- are predicted
- winners are Keys centered on economic
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- issues as well I mean a big predictor
- sometimes can be people look at their
- lives today or the day they're about to
- vote and think am I better off than I
- was last time I voted do do things like
- that play a key part in your system of
- my 13 Keys two of them pertain to the
- economy and they don't deal with Emeral
- polls or public sentiment and remember
- these Keys have been right for 40 years
- and they're very quantitative uh the
- shortterm economic key says the economy
- is not in recession during the election
- year and the National Bureau of economic
- research examines all kinds of
- Statistics to inform us about that the
- long-term economy key asks whether the
- growth per capita real GDP during the
- term equals or exceeds the average of
- the previous two terms purely
- statistical I know we're keeping people
- waiting for your prediction but I'm
- thinking we're going to keep them just a
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- little more because I want to find out
- whether your keys take into account
- things like for example the polarization
- that we see in politics certainly
- politics has changed um than 40 years
- ago when you started getting uh putting
- these Keys into practice and correctly
- predicting the presidential elections do
- the keys account for or are they not
- affected by the polarization you see in
- American
- politics you know my favorite comedian
- is the late great Gilda radna whose
- character Rosanne rosan Dana once said
- there's always something there's always
- something unique about every election in
- 2008 I was told oh my gosh we have an
- African-American running never had
- that ready for that then we had a woman
- running then we had social media I have
- two answers one you can't change a model
- on the Fly that's a re recipe for
- disasters too although I've been
- predicting since I predicted Ronald
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- Reagan's re-election in April
- 1982
- developmentally the keys go all the way
- back to the election of another
- Republican Abraham Lincoln in 1860 when
- women didn't vote African-Americans were
- enslaved we had no radio no television
- no automobiles no planes or an
- agricultural economy so the keys have
- survived much greater changes in our
- politics our society our demography and
- our economics than anything that's
- happened recently that's why they are
- the unchanging North Star prediction
- okay well I think I'm going to get into
- trouble if we keep uh your prediction uh
- back for any longer so Professor lickman
- who do your 13 Keys predict to take the
- White House on November
- 5th my 13 Keys predict we are going to
- have an
- unprecedented President we are going to
- have our first woman president and our
- first president of African an East
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- Indian descent in other words the keys
- predict that kamla Harris will be the
- next president of the United States and
- Donald Trump will fail in his bid to
- regain the White House and how many of
- your keys did KLA Harris wins so to
- speak well it works the other way how
- many did she lose remember it takes six
- or more to count her out I have her down
- four Keys a two key cushion now couple
- of my keys are relate to foreign and
- military policy two Wars are raging
- they're fluid I did give Biden a success
- for being the critical person in putting
- together the Coalition of the West that
- stop Putin from conquering Ukraine and
- threatening our NATO allies now that
- could conceivably change very unlikely
- but that would still be five Keys down
- one key short of predicting Harris's
- defeat so even under the the worst case
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- scenario my prediction Remains the Same
- could I be wrong even though I haven't
- been for 40 years of course you know I'm
- not speaker Mike Johnson who claims the
- almighty talks to him my system is based
- on history there could be cataclysmic
- unprecedented changes that change the
- pattern of History very unlikely but the
- point is you never know until afterwards
- that's why you got to stick to the tried
- andrue system look at uh something that
- we saw not too long ago changed the
- entire race which was that first debate
- between uh President Biden and Donald
- Trump I'm assuming that you think your
- your key system is going to be
- unaffected by the upcoming debate
- between KLA Harris and Donald
- Trump exactly that's why I issued my
- prediction advisedly before the debate
- because the big message of the keys it's
- governing not campaigning that counts
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- and although the Biden Trump debate did
- change the complexion of the democratic
- ticket the keys took that into account
- but generally campaign events including
- debates do not predict elections and no
- one has ever successfully predicted a
- string of Elections by looking at
- campaigns including debates Hillary
- Clinton won all the debates and still
- lost in
- 2016 John carry won the debates against
- a very bad debater George W bush and
- still lost to Bush in
- 2004 now what your um system perhaps
- doesn't do it spits out who might win
- but it won't tell us the margin
- Professor um if it's a very closely
- fought debate does that worry you in
- terms of what we saw last time when
- Donald Trump lost the election debates
- don't worry me at all as I explained uh
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- they are not predictions my system is
- roughly correlated with margins of vote
- but I don't report that I tell you who's
- going to win and who's going to lose
- therefore I put myself out on a limb
- every four years and I have a lot of
- butterflies in my stomach having done
- this for four years because my calls are
- falsifiable take for example the
- compilers of polls like that clerk Nate
- silver he tells you in 2016
- you know something like a 75 to 80%
- chance that Hillary Clinton would win
- and then when she loses he says see I
- told you there was more than a 20%
- chance that she would lose so he can
- never be right and he can never be wrong
- I am either right or wrong and everybody
- knows it what are you like on Election
- night are you the worst person to sit
- next to to watch the results come in I
- am absolutely the worst person although
- I have done a lot of te television
- coverage including for the BBC couple
- times uh in in England but I have to say
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- on Election night
- 2016 I'm not a sardonic person as you
- can see but I took a little bit of
- sardonic pleasure in watching the
- pundits and the posters twist themselves
- into pretzels trying to explain why
- something happened that they assured us
- could not possibly happen Trump's win I
- predicted Trump's win uh which you can
- imagine did not make me very popular in
- 90 % plus Democratic Washington DC where
- I teach at American University but my
- calls are predictions not indorsements
- they're totally nonpartisan I predicted
- about as many republican as Democratic
- wins I called wins for the two most
- conservative Republicans of our time
- Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump as well
- as
- uh like Barack Obama and now uh kamla
- Harris
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- Professor thank you so much uh for
- giving us your time I look forward to
- see whether your prediction uh has
- another record breaking here Professor
- lickman thank you for giving us your
- time take care and can I say one more
- thing catch my live show for my analysis
- every Tuesday and Thursday at 900 PM
- Eastern us at Allen lickman YouTube
- there you go uh alen lickman YouTube is
- where you can find the professor to look
- at his further analysis well look
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