Allan Lichtman, often dubbed the «Nostradamus» of US Presidential Polls, has blamed disinformation and billionaire tech mogul Elon Musk for his incorrect prediction that Vice President Kamala Harris would win the US elections. Lichtman, who has correctly predicted nine out of 10 election results, is renowned for accurately forecasting nine of the last ten US elections.
But things took a U-turn last week when the historian and political scientist's prediction that Kamala Harris would win the US Presidential elections turned out to be wrong with Republican Donald Trump returning to the White House. Now, speaking to News Nation, Allan Lichtman, a professor at American University, provided a deeper explanation for his incorrect forecast and pointed to conservative media platforms and Elon Musk, who pored millions into Donald Trump's campaign, as a factor in his inaccurate prediction.
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The polls prophet pointed to conservative media platforms and Elon Musk, who poured millions into President-elect Trump’s campaign and has become one of his loudest media cheerleaders, as a factor in his inaccurate prediction, the News Nation report stated. He said the tech mogul had helped fuel the spread of false or misleading information online about issues like immigration, hurricane relief and the war in Ukraine, “putting his thumb on the scales", the
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