# Robby Soave: Soave forecast the narrowest possible Electoral College outcome, 270-268 for Kamala Harris, with Harris holding the three blue wall states including Pennsylvania while Trump flips Nevada, Arizona and Georgia.

**Claimed:** Nov 5, 2024
**Pundit:** Robby Soave — https://missedtakes.co/pundits/robby-soave
**Outlet:** Rising (The Hill) — https://missedtakes.co/outlets/rising-the-hill
**How it reached us:** said on air, transcribed by us
**Original:** https://traffic.megaphone.fm/HLIHH7603358850.mp3?updated=1730830303

7 checkable claims — 6 race winners and 1 race margin — each graded on its own rather than as one all-or-nothing bet.

All 7 have settled, averaging 50.9 out of 100, against 8.1 for a naive guess at the same calls.

> So I'm predicting the very narrowest possible win, two seventy to two sixty eight.

*(their words, quoted for attribution)*

## The claims

- **she will hold on to those three blue wall states**
  - Kind: Race Winners
  - Verdict: scored 0 out of 100, against 0 for a naive guess
- **my prediction is that, he does take Nevada where Kamala Harris is currently projected to win**
  - Kind: Race Winners
  - Verdict: scored 100 out of 100, against 0 for a naive guess
- **she will hold on to those three blue wall states**
  - Kind: Race Winners
  - Verdict: scored 0 out of 100, against 0 for a naive guess
- **he's gonna take, Nevada and Arizona and Georgia, but that will not be quite enough to win**
  - Kind: Race Winners
  - Verdict: scored 100 out of 100, against 0 for a naive guess
- **I have Kamala Harris winning Pennsylvania.**
  - Kind: Race Winners
  - Verdict: scored 0 out of 100, against 0 for a naive guess
- **So I'm predicting the very narrowest possible win, two seventy to two sixty eight. Kamala Harris taking it.**
  - Kind: Race Margins
  - Verdict: scored 56 out of 100, against 57 for a naive guess
- **he's gonna flip back Arizona... because he's gonna take, Nevada and Arizona and Georgia**
  - Kind: Race Winners
  - Verdict: scored 100 out of 100, against 0 for a naive guess

## More race winners

The same kind of call, about other players and teams.

- Erick-Woods Erickson: Writing as returns came in on election night, he declared that Republicans would control the Senate, with the size of the majority still unsettled, and said Jon Tester was expected to lose his Montana seat within hours. — https://missedtakes.co/opinions/82214c34-9df6-44e2-8d0a-db8ea7c307f3 (scored 100)
- Erick-Woods Erickson: Writing on election night, he judged Trump to be on the brink of winning the presidency, and called Georgia and North Carolina for him. — https://missedtakes.co/opinions/1dff06ac-6afd-4cba-8d04-66989cafbd39 (scored 100)
- Carl Cannon: Cannon said he half expects Republicans to take the Senate, treated the West Virginia seat as already lost to Democrats with Manchin leaving, and said Trump is poised to carry Ohio. — https://missedtakes.co/opinions/b2689d3e-dc9d-495f-bcc8-52599bb46dac (scored 100)
- Lanny Davis: Davis argued that the closing campaign narrative turned negative for Trump, leaving him optimistic that Kamala Harris would win the presidency. — https://missedtakes.co/opinions/97e9f11b-43c2-490c-9869-1f6e5bb956dc (scored 0)
- Sam Wang: Live-blogging election night, Wang called Iowa for Trump by 12 points, said the presidential race was headed toward Trump, and read partial House returns as showing Democratic pickups in five districts and Republican pickups in two, with overall House control still undetermined. — https://missedtakes.co/opinions/cf6c147d-478d-438a-848d-55fd3ac9c8d0 (scored 0)
- Steve Deace: On Election Day, Deace said he believes Trump will win the presidency, and that rather than a split decision across the seven battleground states, one candidate will sweep five, six or all of them. He also took the 'over' on Trump exceeding his 2016 popular-vote share of 46%. — https://missedtakes.co/opinions/7b7565db-4811-4dd0-8830-872386b9e74f (scored 100)

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