US Election ‘Nostradamus’ Identifies Possible Kamala Harris Weak Spot

Historian Allan Lichtman, known for his election prediction system, “The Keys to the White House,” has suggested the war in Ukraine could prove to be a weak spot for the Democratic Party as it seeks reelection under Vice President Kamala Harris, according to the model.
Lichtman’s system revolves around 13 keys, which evaluate the incumbent party’s standing based on various factors, including the economy, foreign policy and domestic politics. If six or more of the 13 keys—all true/false statements—are false, the incumbent party is predicted to lose the election. Should five or fewer be false, it is expected to win.
Based on this model, Lichtman has officially predicted that Harris will win the election, though the system is not without its critics.
“Well, the shakiest key is the foreign policy success key,” Lichtman said during a live-streamed interview on YouTube on Wednesday in response to a question about which keys the Democratic Party could be in danger of losing.
“I gave that to the administration because it was [President Joe] Biden…who put together the coalition of the West that stopped Putin from conquering Ukraine and going after our NATO allies and deeply endangering America’s national security.”
Newsweek reached out to the Harris campaign for comment via email.
While he said American support had kept Ukraine “alive” for more than two and a half years, even enabling the Eastern European country to make an incursion into neighboring Russia, he caveated that “wars are fluid.”
“And I suppose there could be a catastrophe in Ukraine,” the American University professor said.
In an email to Newsweek on Friday, Lichtman clarified: “It is just the shakiest comparatively because wars are uncertain.
“However, by now I am confident it will not flip. Even so, a flip would not change the prediction because Harris has a two-key cushion with four negative keys.”
The 13 keys, as set out by the historian in a 2012 article for the Social Education journal, are:
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