Professor who accurately predicted Trump’s 2016 win ups the ante ‘bigly’ for 2020
July 3, 2020 |
Tom Tillison |
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The professor who predicted President Donald Trump had an 87% chance of winning the 2016 election isn’t being persuaded by the liberal media naysayers reporting that the president’s reelection chances are in trouble.
In fact, Professor Helmut Norpoth is upping the ante in the 2020 election, saying Trump has a 91% chance of winning in November.
For those paying attention to the news cycle, in addition to a hard pivot by the media back to the perils of the Wuhan Flu and calls for another shutdown, there has been a steady diet of reports that Trump’s campaign is also ill — it’s almost like there’s some sort of “JournoList” that liberal reporters subscribe to or something.
But Norpoth, a political science professor at Long Island’s Stoney Brook University, is convinced that Trump is doing just fine and he appeared on Fox Business Network’s “
Lou Dobbs Tonight,” where he made his 2016 prediction, to say so.
“I’m predicting that Donald Trump has a 91% chance of being reelected, the professor boldly declared on Thursday’s show.