A month later, the California governor defeated the recall with 62% of the vote. He made the prediction on Twitter in August when polls were tightening and some Democrats were questioning the strategy of not putting forward a potential Newsom successor. NATE SILVER said there’s a “pretty decent” chance that GAVIN NEWSOM would lose the recall election. Embassy in Kabul and the Taliban had taken over. … The likelihood there’s going to be the Taliban overrunning everything and owning the whole country is highly unlikely.” One month later, Chinook helicopters were airlifting Americans off the roof of the U.S. To quote: “There’s going to be no circumstance where you see people being lifted off the roof of an embassy … of the United States from Afghanistan. As forces were being withdrawn from Afghanistan, President JOE BIDEN predicted at a press conference July 8 that it would be nothing like the fall of Saigon and that the Taliban wouldn’t take over. He told Kelly, who agreed, “I would just say to everybody: It will be fine. 6, HUGH HEWITT predicted on MEGYN KELLY’s podcast that DONALD TRUMP’s final weeks in office would be much ado about little, and a peaceful transfer of power would just happen. In what’s become a delicious year-end staple at POLITICO Magazine, our deputy editor Zack Stanton reviews some of 2021’s biggest whiffs in politics. Predicting the future is a fool’s errand, but people just can’t help themselves. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images DRIVING THE DAY 6, Hugh Hewitt predicted that Donald Trump’s final weeks in office would be much ado about little, and a peaceful transfer of power would just happen.
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