Nate Silver: Clinton ‘almost certainly’ would be president if not for Comey

Published December 11, 2016 6:24pm ET



Statistics expert Nate Silver claims defeated Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton would “almost certainly” have made it to the Oval Office if the election had been held before FBI Director James Comey announced the reopening of the agency’s investigation into her private email practices.

“Comey had a large, measurable impact on the race,” wrote Silver, who ran FiveThirtyEight’s election forecast, in a series of tweets Sunday morning.

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