# Henry Olsen

> Henry Olsen is a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, a Washington Post opinion columnist, and one of the most accurate election forecasters of the past two decades. He called the 2024 presidential race for Donald Trump, including a popular-vote win, while most analysts hedged. A lawyer by training and a Reagan scholar by obsession, Olsen studies the working-class voters that conventional polling tends to miss, and he hosts the weekly podcast 'Beyond the Polls.'

- **Role:** Senior Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center
- **Organizations:** Ethics and Public Policy Center, The Washington Post, Hillsdale College (Washington, D.C.)
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** B.A., Claremont McKenna College, J.D., University of Chicago Law School
- **Known for:** 20-year track record of highly accurate U.S. presidential and congressional election forecasts, Called the 2024 presidential race for Donald Trump, including a popular-vote win, against mainstream consensus, Author of 'The Working Class Republican: Ronald Reagan and the Return of Blue-Collar Conservatism' (2017)

## Career timeline

- **early career** — Political consultant at the California firm Hoffenblum-Mollrich
- **early career** — Worked for the California Assembly Republican Caucus for three years
- **post-law school** — Clerked for Judge Danny J. Boggs on the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals
- **post-clerkship** — Associate at the Philadelphia office of Dechert, Price & Rhoads
- **think tank years** — President of the Commonwealth Foundation
- **think tank years** — Vice President at the Manhattan Institute
- **2006-2013** — Vice President and Director, National Research Initiative, American Enterprise Institute
- **2013** — Joined the Ethics and Public Policy Center as Senior Fellow
- **2017** — Published 'The Working Class Republican: Ronald Reagan and the Return of Blue-Collar Conservatism'
- **2020** — Began teaching a graduate course on elections at Hillsdale College in D.C.
- **2024** — Correctly forecast Donald Trump's presidential victory, including the popular vote

## Achievements

- 20-year track record of highly accurate U.S. presidential and congressional election forecasts
- Called the 2024 presidential race for Donald Trump, including a popular-vote win, against mainstream consensus
- Author of 'The Working Class Republican: Ronald Reagan and the Return of Blue-Collar Conservatism' (2017)
- Co-author with Dante J. Scala of 'The Four Faces of the Republican Party'
- Washington Post opinion columnist with bylines in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, POLITICO, the Guardian, and the Telegraph
- Host of the weekly podcast 'Beyond the Polls'

## Latest updates

- **2024-11** — Correctly forecast Donald Trump's 2024 presidential victory and popular-vote win, cementing his reputation as a leading election analyst.

## Links

- Website: https://eppc.org/author/henry_olsen/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/henry-olsen-a768948
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/henryolsenEPPC
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyIAHkPUIX8&list=PLEUn4AagNte4qEJldGu6t6TnvaDEth-TI

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