Nate Silver: Electoral College for Biden not ‘safe’ unless he wins popular vote by 5-plus points

Published September 3, 2020 4:16pm ET



Polling guru Nate Silver predicted that President Trump has a good shot at winning the Electoral College so long as he doesn’t lose the popular vote by a large margin.

If Biden does not win the popular vote by more than 5%, Trump may still be able to secure a reelection victory, the FiveThirtyEight editor-in-chief said in tweets on Wednesday, two months out from Election Day.

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