7 people who predicted Trump's victory
Henry Olsen
Henry Olsen, a political commentator and a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, predicted a Trump victory in an opinion piece published a couple of days before Election Day.
“The weight of the evidence leads me to predict Donald Trump will win the Electoral College and could under a best-case scenario even win the popular vote,” he wrote.
“Congress goes GOP, too. Trump’s victory will also carry the GOP to enhanced majorities in the House and a good night in the Senate. If Trump wins Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, as I think he will, the Republican senatorial candidates should also win their races.”
Olsen added that “I might be wrong” and that, regardless of what happens, “we must rededicate ourselves to our democratic republican ideals sooner rather than later if we want to keep our nation whole and sound.”
“If your party loses, ask yourself the next morning whether the person who voted for the winner is a fellow citizen or an implacable enemy,” he stated.
“If you think the latter, you have decided victory rather than democracy is your lodestar. And if that’s the case with most Americans, our system cannot long endure. Losing that, more than losing any election, is a tragedy we should strive to prevent.”
