Election forecaster Allan Lichtman lashed out at fellow prognosticator Nate Silver on Wednesday, while admitting he was wrong to predict Vice President Harris. would win the presidency.

“Unlike Nate Silver, who will try to ask why he didn’t see the election coming, I admit I was wrong,” Lichtman said. wrote on social platform

His comments follow former President Trump was declared the winner early Wednesday.

American historian and university professor who has correctly predicted almost every presidential election since 1984 using a formula of 13 true or false questions, Lichtman predicted Harris would winsaying only a major event abroad could still swing the race in Trump’s favor.

Silver’s analysis viewed the race as a statistical coin toss, although he covered that “close polls do not necessarily predict a close result.”

“How could there be another systematic polling error in favor of Trump or Harris that would make Ann Selzer a heroine or a goat – and how other gutless pollsters just gave up and decided to copy the students who have done their homework,” Silver added.

The money had previously written his hunch was that Trump would win.

Lichtman has previously taken photos of the FiveThirtyEight founder, and the pair An online rivalry arose in September when Silver argued that Lichtman’s method actually predicted a Trump victory.

“Nate. you don’t have a clue how to apply my keys. You are neither a historian nor a political scientist and you have no academic degree of any kind,” Lichtman written at the time.

Although Silver publicly questioned Lichtman’s methods, he also complimented his work.

“Lichtman is comically overconfident and doesn’t admit to the subjectivities of his method, but you’ll legitimately learn a lot about presidential elections from reading his work, and he at least sets out to make testable predictions,” he wrote about.

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