The Democrats may have been taking too much stock during the election from terminally-online British pundits who all called the election for Harris. None more fervently than Rory Stewart…
Kamala Harris will win comfortably, because:
• Biden’s admin has been solid
• Trump’s lost ground since 2016
• The young Black male votes which Trump needs didn’t turn out in 16, 18, 20, or 22
• Young women like Kamala + vote
✴️Ignore polls—they’re herding, after past misses— Rory Stewart (@RoryStewartUK) November 4, 2024
Podcaster Rory then said “if I’ve totally miscalled this it’s would be a massive lesson in humility. And would suggest my whole framework is cracked. Let’s see.” All part of his new series on “how to be more ignorant” no doubt…
Ian Dunt was still holding onto his confidence in Harris down to the wire, at the same time as Marina Purkiss reassured her followers: “Sparsely populated Republican precincts are quicker to count than more densely populated Democrat ones.” These are the real experts…
Look, just for the record, vibes and data are all swished up together in these moments. We have been here before. This time in 2020, it was all over and Trump had won it.
— Ian Dunt (@IanDunt) November 6, 2024
Just as all US pollsters were in the process of being proved disastrously wrong Lewis Goodall took a break from presenting on Sky News to tweet: “Feels to me the polls were spot on.” Not to mention fellow News Agents host Jon Sopel profoundly observing the “momentum shift” to Kamala in the last two days. You can hear Nigel laughing from Mar-a-Lago…
UPDATE: Carol Vorderman had a go too…
Red Wall Labour backbencher Jonathan Brash told GB News that Starmer should resign:
“I’m completely fed up about it, and I think it’s got to the point now where I genuinely think that, as far as the Prime Minister is concerned, it’s not a case of if, it’s when.”
