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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(135,602 posts)
Thu Nov 5, 2020, 01:44 PM Nov 2020

Bernie Sanders's election-night predictions were eerily correct: 'He called it WORD for WORD'

As Jimmy Fallon asked Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Oct. 23 when he thought the country would know the election results, Sanders quickly spun out a very specific prediction.

In-person ballots cast in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin would initially favor President Trump. But the early lead would not last too long, Sanders warned. Once election officials began counting late-arriving ballots, Joe Biden would rise.

Then, Sanders said, Trump would go on TV to falsely proclaim himself the winner.

“He says, ‘Thank you Americans for reelecting me. It’s all over. Have a good day,’” Sanders said on “The Tonight Show” last month.

Less than two weeks later, as many of Sanders’s guesses seemed to play out in real time on election night, a clip of his predictions on Fallon’s show went viral on Twitter, where one video has gotten about 29 million views as of early Thursday.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/bernie-sanderss-election-night-predictions-were-eerily-correct-he-called-it-word-for-word/ar-BB1aISkZ?li=BBnb7Kz

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Bernie Sanders's election-night predictions were eerily correct: 'He called it WORD for WORD' (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Nov 2020 OP
Everyone knew that would happen, Bernie's not some mystical genius sweetloukillbot Nov 2020 #1
Exactly. Cha Nov 2020 #5
Yeah, 'many people' predicted the same. tman Nov 2020 #2
Red mirage is entirely due to states not being allowed to count mail in ballots before the election LisaL Nov 2020 #3
Message auto-removed Name removed Nov 2020 #4
Everyone was predicting that. Codeine Nov 2020 #6
So did every one else. Yea us. Probably where Sanders got it. LizBeth Nov 2020 #7
EVERYONE has been saying that! NurseJackie Nov 2020 #8

sweetloukillbot

(12,744 posts)
1. Everyone knew that would happen, Bernie's not some mystical genius
Thu Nov 5, 2020, 01:45 PM
Nov 2020

People have been predicting this exact situation for MONTHS

tman

(1,252 posts)
2. Yeah, 'many people' predicted the same.
Thu Nov 5, 2020, 01:47 PM
Nov 2020

The red mirage had been anticipated for months.

Trump is so damn predictable.

LisaL

(47,423 posts)
3. Red mirage is entirely due to states not being allowed to count mail in ballots before the election
Thu Nov 5, 2020, 01:48 PM
Nov 2020

day.
In states where ballots are counted early there was no red mirage.

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