Historian Blames ‘Disinformation’ From Fox News and Elon Musk After Election Prediction Goes Horribly Wrong
Historian and Keys to the White House author Allan Lichtman blamed “disinformation” from Fox News and Elon Musk on Monday after he was asked why his 2024 presidential election prediction went so horribly wrong.
Defending his inaccurate prediction that Vice President Kamala Harris would defeat President-elect Donald Trump, Lichtman told NewsNation host Chris Cuomo, “As I said, things could go wrong. There could be unprecedented events that change the pattern of 160 years of history. That’s what happened here.”
He argued:
Number one, disinformation. We’ve always had disinformation, but disinformation has exploded to an unprecedented degree. You talked about a grievance election, but a lot of that grievance was driven by disinformation. Starts with Fox News and conservative media, conservative podcasters with tens of millions of views, but we’ve seen something brand new this time. The 300-billionaire Elon Musk putting his thumb on the scales through his control of X, formerly Twitter. It’s been reported that his misinformation has had billions, literally billions of views, and this has spread to every aspect of this election.
There was misinformation about everything about the economy. Inflation, jobs, unemployment, the stock market, growth. There was vast disinformation about undocumented immigrants. You know, that they’re supposedly killers who are out to get you. In fact, studies by Cato and the National Institute of Justice show undocumented immigrants are the most law-abiding segment of our society, committed crimes and violent crimes less than half that of native-born Americans.
Lichtman continued, “The other thing that’s unique about this election is the explosion of elements that have always been present – the dark side of American history – but that have been agitated to an unprecedented degree in this election. I’m talking about racism, misogyny, xenophobia, anti-Semitism, with a woman of color being a particular target.”
“The Democrats lost because they underperformed, Allan,” responded Cuomo, unconvinced by Lichtman’s explanation. “They misread the main motivators for the voters and they underperformed. Black women pulled a heavy, heavy load for the Democrats again, but they couldn’t overcome Black men, Latino men, Latino women, married women.”
After Cuomo asked, “You really believe Elon Musk cost Harris the election?” Lichtman replied, “I didn’t say Elon Musk. I gave you a whole litany of how we have had an unprecedented degree of misinformation that affected every aspect of this election.”
However, he went on to warn that the “mega rich” would soon be able to “control society.”
“When I was a kid, I read these science fiction books. You know, the premise was a few mega rich people were able to control society,” said Lichtman. “Well, we’re not all that far from it and I am sounding the alarm.”
Watch above via NewsNation.
