American historian Allan Lichtman, known as the Nostradamus of the US elections, was at a loss for words when he predicted the victory of Kamala Harris in 2024 US presidential election went wrong.
Lichtman, along with his son Sam, did a six-hour YouTube livestream and was seen saying, “I don’t get it,” as Donald Trump approached victory.
Lichtman was visibly tired, stressed and disappointed by the election. “Good thing I don’t have anything to do tomorrow. And I don’t do interviews, he says. “They democracy is gone.”
“Once democracy is gone, it is almost impossible to recover. The way to recover is by the dictators losing wars,” he said.
On November 6, Republican candidate and former President Donald Trump scored a historic victory and struck Kamala Harris and passes the threshold of the required majority. Trump thanked his supporters and marked it as a “great victory for the American people”.
“This is the first moment of the night where I’ve lost hope a little bit,” Sam Lichtman said as US networks called Battleground Pennsylvania for Trump.
Lichtman also said he hoped Trump would serve out his term and “we never have to deal with him again. I just can’t wrap my mind around how so many people can just ignore all the crap he did in 2020,” while calling him too lazy to rule the country.
“Democracy is valuable, but like all precious things, it can be destroyed. And usually destroyed from within. And throughout the 21st century, democracy has been inside decline everywhere in the world, and America has now fallen in step. But never give up hope. Never stop striving. Never stop trying, especially you young people,” Lichtman said before signing off.
Who is Lichtman?
Allan Lichtman is an author, historian and rare political prognosticator with a track record of poll predictions, and he predicted that Kamala Harris would become the first female president of the United States.
“Send them (statement polls) to the flames,” he reportedly said before the result.
“Yes, we’re going to have Kamala Harris, a new groundbreaking president, the first female president and the first president of mixed African and Asian descent. It’s kind of a harbinger of where America is going. We’re quickly becoming a majority-minority country, old white guys like me; we’re on the decline,” he previously said.
Lichtman’s prediction model focuses on historical patterns and dismisses the idea that polls, campaign strategies, or even electoral demographics can determine outcomes.
