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Allan Lichtman is Famous for Correctly Predicting the 2016 Election. The Problem? He Didn’t

The history professor is one of the few credited with predicting Trump's 2016 win. There's just one problem: he's rewritten history to obfuscate that his model only predicted the popular vote, which Trump lost.

We wrote this cover story over the summer. In light of a recent article in The Atlantic, we’re bringing our original, unedited article back to the front page. You can find Professor Lichtman’s response here.

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