# Isaac Saul: Recapping and restating his final 2024 call, Saul predicts Trump wins the presidency while Harris carries Pennsylvania, with Democrats taking the House and Republicans ending up with 53 Senate seats. He insists the race is a coin flip but still lands on Trump. **Claimed:** Nov 1, 2024 **Pundit:** Isaac Saul — https://missedtakes.co/pundits/isaac-saul **Outlet:** Tangle (podcast) — https://missedtakes.co/outlets/tangle-podcast **How it reached us:** said on air, transcribed by us **Original:** https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/66510864c0852400122bc7be/e/67250b89e4fa0260052568cf/media.mp3 4 checkable claims — 2 race winners, 1 chamber control and 1 seat count — each graded on its own rather than as one all-or-nothing bet. All 4 have settled, averaging 50 out of 100, against 30 for a naive guess at the same calls. > Number three, I think Trump is going to win. *(their words, quoted for attribution)* ## The claims - **Number three, I think Trump is going to win.** - Kind: Race Winners - Verdict: scored 100 out of 100, against 0 for a naive guess - **and that Republicans would come away with 53 seats in the Senate** - Kind: Seat Counts - Verdict: scored 100 out of 100, against 20 for a naive guess - **I also argued that Trump had a path to winning in Michigan, that Democrats would win the House** - Kind: Chamber Control - Verdict: scored 0 out of 100, against 100 for a naive guess - **one of my headline predictions was that Vice President Kamala Harris would win Pennsylvania but lose the election** - Kind: Race Winners - Verdict: scored 0 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) --- Accuracy is 0-100 against what actually happened. The naive guess is what a strategy requiring no knowledge would have scored on the same call — the difference is the skill, and it is what the MissedTakes Score averages. Full method: https://missedtakes.co/methodology We summarize what a pundit said and quote a short span for attribution; we never republish their article. If this is wrong, tell us: https://missedtakes.co/corrections?pundit=isaac-saul