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Times Radio: Trump will lose according to crucial '13 keys' predictor | Allan Lichtman


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Peter Burgess
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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Transcript
  • 0:00
  • 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

  • 1:00
  • 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

  • 2:01
  • 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

  • 3:00
  • 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

  • 4:00
  • 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

  • 5:00
  • 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

  • 6:00
  • 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

  • 7:03
  • 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

  • 8:01
  • 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

  • 9:04
  • 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

  • 10:00
  • 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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