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The Worst Pundits EVER!

Posted on | March 16, 2025 | 16 Comments

How could I have missed this? An opportunity for an easy dunk on the Lincoln Project? But in the aftermath of the 2024 election, there was just so much schadenfreude fodder that somehow this escaped my notice until today, when the YouTube algorithm directed me to a Canadian YouTuber’s LOL finger-pointing festival, and I knew immediately that I had to share this with y’all. So here’s the setup:

Saturday, November 2 — three days before the election, and the Lincoln Project’s Rick Wilson records a podcast segment featuring his colleagues Stuart Stevens, Jeff Timmer and Trygve Olson. All of them declare with ironclad certainty that Kamala Harris is going to run the table in the “battleground” States and stomp Donald Trump into tiny orange smithereens. The fun begins when Wilson introduces his guests as “three of the most brilliant minds in American politics.” He starts with Olson, who says he’s spent the past week in Wisconsin where Harris “is on a trajectory” to win the state by a wider margin than Joe Biden did in 2020 (she lost Wisconsin by 30,000 votes). Then he cuts to Stu Stevens predicting that Harris will win nationwide by “about the same margin that Obama won in [his 2012 reelection campaign], like 3.9.” (LOL!) Next it’s Timmer’s turn and he describes himself as “fairly bullish.” Timmer then refers to Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin, saying he’s been digging “down into the minutiae of the numbers” — poll numbers, presumably — as indicating “everything points toward a Harris win in all three of those states.” Wrong, wrong, and wrong! Not content to be batting 0-for-3 on those battlegrounds, Timmer goes on to speak confidently of “when [not if] Trump loses North Carolina,” before suggesting Trump might even lose Florida, because of what he foresees as a possibility that “the bottom drops out of Trump’s support.”

Now, I have merely shared a few quotes from the first three minutes of this pre-election Very Special Episode of the Lincoln Project podcast and my friends — they go on for a full half-hour this way!

Grab some popcorn, you’re going love it!

 



 

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