G. Elliott Morris
American journalist
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| March 2025 | Laid off along with the entire FiveThirtyEight staff when the site was shut down. |
| May 2023 | Hired by ABC News to lead FiveThirtyEight as editorial director of data analytics after Nate Silver's departure. |
| August 1 2020 | Released election model giving Joe Biden an 87 percent chance of winning, which sparked a public disagreement with Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight. |
| March 2020 | Published the first major forecast model for the 2020 U.S. presidential election with The Economist. |
| February 2020 | Morris criticized 2016 U.S. presidential election predictions, describing them as 'lying to people' and 'editorial malpractice', highlighting issues with poll representation of education demographics. |
| February 2020 | Criticized 2016 U.S. presidential election predictions, calling them 'lying to people' and 'editorial malpractice', highlighting issues with poll representation of education levels. |
| 2018 | Became the 'breakout star of the 2018 election' by creating project models that correctly predicted the Democrats would regain the House of Representatives. |
| 2018 | Graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with undergraduate degrees in government and history. |
| 2018 | Morris began working as a data journalist for The Economist. |
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