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Viral hippo Moo Deng predicts who will win the 2024 US elections | US News

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The famous pygmy hippopotamus Moo Deng predicted whether Kamala Harris Or Donald Trump will become the next president of the United States in the American election.

Moo Deng was presented with two watermelon cakes, one engraved with Trump’s name and the other engraved with Harris’ name, at the Khao Kheow Open Zoo in Chonburi, Thailand on Monday.

She predicted that Trump win the elections after the video shows her eating the watermelon cake with Trump’s name on it.

It didn’t take long for another hippo from the zoo to come and finish Kamala Harris’ cake.

The three-month-old hippo joins millions of other Americans and polling companies to have their say on who could win the elections.

Harris currently has a one-point lead over Trump, according to the latest national polling average, compiled by FiveThirtyEight.

Around 75 million votes have already been recorded at polling stations opened last week.

But the gap is expected to narrow today as millions more vote across the country.

Moo Deng (left) ate Donald Trump’s watermelon cake

In contrast to Moo Deng’s prediction, the so-called Nostradamus of US elections predicted that Kamala Harris would become the next president.

Historian Allan Lichtman has correctly predicted nine of ten presidential elections over the past four decades.

He predicted Harris would win in September, but this week he stood by his decision.

Lichtman bases his prediction on 13 keys to the White House which are determined not by polls and pundits, but by true or false responses to the performance of the ruling political party.

The keys he designed with a Russian academic in 1981 are: midterm gains, mandate, primary race, third party, short-term economics, long-term economics, policy change, social unrest, scandal of the White House, charisma of the outgoing president, charisma of the challenger, failure of foreign policy and success of foreign policy.

Lichtman believes Harris will win the 2024 US election (Photo: AFP via Getty Images)

Lichtman had only three false keys for Harris: the midterm gains, the mandate and the charisma of the outgoing president. It would take six wrong keys for Trump to win, according to the model.

Meanwhile, a shock Des Moines Register/Mediacom Iowa poll released Saturday night shows Harris leading Trump in the state 47% to 44% just days before the election.

This is a state Trump won by more than eight points in 2020 when he lost the election.

Once a swing stateIowa has tilted more and more Republican in recent years, but could all that be about to change?

Well, this poll is an exception and most other polls show both men neck and neck for president.

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