Professor Who Predicted 9 of 10 Elections Tells CNN Taking Biden Out ‘Could Not Be More Misguided’

Professor Allan Lichtman — whose model has predicted 9 of the last 10 presidential elections — told CNN that replacing President Joe Biden “could not be more misguided.”

Calls for Biden to drop out have dominated coverage of CNN’s Biden-Trump debate last Thursday night after deadly early stumbles from President Biden set the tone.

But Lichtman — whose model has accurately predicted election results using what are called the “13 Keys” — said, on Monday’s edition of CNN News Central, that he has only become more certain that replacing Biden would almost guarantee victory for former President Donald Trump:

JOHN BERMAN: Professor, when we last heard from you Friday night with Abby Phillip, you said no, replacing President Biden would be a mistake. You’ve had two more days to think about it. How do you feel this morning?

PROF. ALLAN LICHTMAN: Even more strongly that it would be a mistake!

You know, all of those who are calling for Biden’s withdrawal, they have zero track record in predicting elections, and yet they presume to tell us what the Democrats need to do to win this election.

And remember, all the pundits, you know, watched Hillary Clinton win three debates in 2016. They all said Trump was finished after Access Hollywood. And they are so often wrong.

I have a system, as you know, that’s been successful — I would say ten of ten, but we can argue about 2000 — since 1984 and the way it works, I have 13 keys of six fall against the White House party. They are predicted losers.

Biden ticks off the incumbency key and he ticks off the party contest key. You push him out, you lose the incumbency key and you lose the contest key.

So instead of starting two keys up and having six more keys to fall to predict the Democrats defeat, they start two keys down and only four more keys would have to fall.

Moreover, how often, since the turn of the 20th century, has the party holding the White House ever won in an open seat with an uncertain or contested nomination? The answer is never.

And that’s what all these critics would be setting up if they pushed Biden out of this race. They could not be more misguided.

And in terms of Biden’s capacities. I’m not a neurologist. They are not neurologists. They have no standing to comment on that. And I would only say far better to judge Biden by three and three quarter years or so of his presidency than 90 minutes.

Watch above via CNN News Central.

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