Dem
51
GOP
49
Political pundits are always making predictions. It's part of the job description. Some of them are pretty good and some of them are not so good. Other famous people also make predictions from time to time. Now that 2023 has come to an end, Politico has collected some of the worst ones, in the sense that they were very far off the mark. Here is a partial list of them.
| Date | Speaker | Statement |
| Jan. 2 | Tyrus Murdoch | Elon Musk will buy Disney. |
| Jan. 4 | Karl Rove | Joe Biden will face a serious primary challenger. |
| Jan. 4 | Donna Edwards | Kevin McCarthy won't be elected speaker; he'll drop out. |
| Jan. 5 | Michael Moore | Dems will somehow regain control of the House ahead of 2024. |
| Jan. 7 | Kevin McCarthy | My speakership will last a full 2-year term. |
| Feb. 6 | Fox "News" | There will be a recession in 2023. |
| Feb. 15 | Ross Douthat | Nikki Haley's presidential candidacy will be less viable than Mike Pence's. |
| March 1 | Joe Biden | Housing and rental prices are going to come down. |
| March 30 | Larry Kudlow | Trump will not be indicted in Manhattan. |
| April 24 | Tomi Lahren | Prompted by DeSantis' surge, Dems will dump Biden for Newsom. |
| April 24 | Glenn Beck | Firing Tucker Carlson will be the end of Fox News. |
| May 23 | Mick Mulvaney | DeSantis' campaign launch on Twitter Spaces is genius. |
| June 12 | Kari Lake | 300 Million Americans will rise up in protest if Trump is indicted. |
| June 12 | Anthony Scaramucci | Trump will run... but drop out. |
| July 23 | Ben Shapiro | Barbie will flop because it's too woke. |
| July 24 | Darrell Issa | A Biden impeachment inquiry will launch by the end of Sept. with Dem support. |
| Aug. 24 | Pedro Gonzalez | Trump made a huge mistake by skipping the first GOP debate. |
| Oct. 4 | Adam Kinzinger | Jim Jordan will be elected speaker of the House. |
| Oct. 5 | Alyssa Griffin | The next speaker of the House will be Steve Scalise. |
Making predictions is tough. Especially about the future. And looking at the composition of this list, it would seem Republicans have a particularly difficult time.
We made a bit of a mess of the predictions at the start of 2023, so we're going to push "reset" and get it right this time. If you have some daring political predictions for 2024, send them to comments@electoral-vote.com with the subject: "Prediction" . (V)