Moo Deng makes prediction about who will win the US election 2024
The famous pygmy hippo Moo Deng has predicted whether Kamala Harris or Donald Trump will become the next President of the United States in the US election.
Moo Deng was offered two watermelon cakes, one carved with Trump’s name and one carved with Harris’s name, at the Khao Kheow Open Zoo in Chonburi, Thailand, on Monday.
She has predicted that Trump will win the election after video shows her eating the watermelon cake with Trump’s name on.
It didn’t take long for another hippo at the zoo to come along and polish off the Kamala Harris cake.
The three-month-old hippo joins millions of others of Americans and polling companies in having their say as to who might win the election.
Harris currently has a one-point lead over Trump, according to the latest average of national polls, collated by FiveThirtyEight.
Around 75 million votes have already been cast at voting sites that opened last week.
But the gap is expected to tighten today as millions of others will cast their votes across the nation.
On the flipside to Moo Deng’s prediction, the so-called Nostradamus of US elections has predicted that Kamala Harris will become the next President.
Historian Allan Lichtman has correctly predicted nine of the 10 presidential elections over the last four decades.
He predicted that Harris would win in September but this week has stood by his decision.
Lichtman bases his prediction on 13 keys to the White House that are determined not by polls and pundits, but by true-false answers to the performance of the political party in power.
The keys which he devised with a Russian academic in 1981 are: Midterm gains, incumbency, primary contest, third party, short-term economy, long-term economy, policy change, social unrest, White House scandal, incumbent charisma, challenger charisma, foreign policy failure and foreign policy success.
Lichtman had just three false keys for Harris – midterm gains, incumbency and incumbent charisma. She would need six false keys for Trump to win, according to the model.
Meanwhile, a shock Des Moines Register/Mediacom Iowa poll that came out late on Saturday showed Harris leading Trump in the state by 47% to 44% just days before the election.
This was a state won by Trump by more than eight points in 2020 when he lost the election.
Once a swing state, Iowa has increasingly trended more towards Republican in recent years but could that all be about to change?
Well, this poll is an outlier and most other polls show the pair neck-and-neck to become President.
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