Conservative George Will, who made headlines yesterday by saying he would vote for presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden in November, made a bolder prediction today on The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell:
The election will be called by 11 p.m. on Election Night in favor of Joe Biden.
(Editor’s note: I didn’t record this show, so my quotes in this story are paraphrases from notes hastily written by hand.)
“Definitely by eleven,” Will said when asked by Lawrence if there were enough conservatives willing to vote for Biden to make the election a landslide.
“Pennsylvania. Michigan. Wisconsin. Florida,” Will said when predicting states that will have races called early. “Maybe Ohio. I can also see Texas and Georgia going [to Biden] as well.”
A lifelong conservative, Will publicly left the republican Party in 2015 after the rise of Donald Trump in the Party.
O’Donnell joked with Will: “Welcome to the light side.”
“It’s only temporary loitering,” Will replied.