Biden is predicted to win the presidential election with a 91% probability

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has a high chance of winning the 2020 election. According to the latest forecast from The Economist, he will receive the majority of the electoral college votes. Writes about it Newsweek.

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According to the forecast, Biden will receive a majority of electoral votes with a probability of 91%, while the chance of victory for the current US President Donald Trump is only 9%. The forecast also predicts that the former vice president will almost certainly win a majority of the popular vote, with a 99 percent chance of garnering the lion's share of the vote on Nov. 3.

538 electors will vote for the President of the United States; at least 270 votes are required to win. Biden is projected to receive about 347 electoral votes and Trump 191. The forecast is based on a model that simulates 20 likely election results.

While this model puts the incumbent at a distinct disadvantage, it does not write him off completely. Trump's projected range is 116 to 312 electoral votes, while Biden's is projected to be 226 to 422. Scenarios in which no candidate reaches 270 votes have a probability of no more than 1%.

The forecast looks far from favorable for Trump, but supporters of the president can immediately notice that similar predictions were made in 2016, when the elections ended in his unexpected victory over former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

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Some projections for 2016 suggested Trump had almost no chance of winning: The Princeton Election Consortium predicted that Clinton had a 99 percent chance of winning, while the Huffington Post gave her a 98 percent chance.

FiveThirtyEight, which presented a more favorable outlook for Trump and gave him a 28,4 percent chance of winning in 2016, is now giving the president a 13 percent chance of winning over Biden.

However, in opinion polls, Biden is gaining more votes than Clinton at the same time in 2016. On Monday, October 12, Biden was ahead of Trump by an average of 10,4% nationwide. The gap between Clinton and Trump in the same period in 2016 was 6,3% in favor of the former. By election day, Clinton's leadership had shrunk to an average of 3,9%. She ultimately won the nationwide popular vote, but lost the electoral college vote.

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