Allan Lichtman, the historian known for predicting the outcome of presidential elections, is explaining what the heck happened with his incorrect selection of Vice President Kamala Harris this go-round. Before this week, the American University professor ...

Historian and professor Allan Lichtman stuck by his prediction that Vice President Kamala Harris would win the White House.

I emailed Lichtman this morning to see if he wanted to talk about what he thinks went wrong. He thanked me and declined. “Thanks Andrew,” he wrote. “But I am going to take some time off to assess why I was wrong and what the future holds for the country.”

It’s a busy time for Allan Lichtman ’67, the so-called “prediction professor” who has built a national profile correctly forecasting the outcome of U.S. presidential elections since 1984 using his Keys to the White House prediction system. Lichtman is a distinguished professor of history at American University.

The historian who correctly predicted 9 of last 10 presidential elections said he feels particularly nervous this year.