‘Take The L’: Ex-CNN Analyst Torches Historian Who ‘Blamed’ His Wrong Election Prediction On ‘Disinformation,’ Bigotry

Former CNN political analyst Chris Cillizza criticized historian Allan Lichtman on Monday for how he justified his incorrect prediction that Vice President Kamala Harris would defeat President-elect Donald Trump.

Lichtman, on CNN’s “Laura Coates Live” and his YouTube channel, largely blamed the failure of his “13 Keys to the White House” forecasting system on “disinformation” and bigotry. Cillizza ranted on his own YouTube channel about why Lichtman’s explanation angered him, asserting that it contradicted the entire premise of his prediction system.

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“This is the thing that really got me riled up … how Lichtman has explained being wrong. Clearly wrong, ’cause Trump’s gonna win the popular vote and the Electoral College, so there’s no way to kind of wiggle out of this one … In the wake of , he said, ‘I’m going to take a few days and analyze what went wrong with the keys.’ I mean, I can tell you what went wrong with the keys: it’s subjective, just like lots of things,” Cillizza said before referencing Lichtman’s “Laura Coates Live” appearance.