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Rachel Bitecofer is a political scientist and election forecaster who gained prominence for accurately predicting the 2018 midterm elections. She served as a senior fellow at the Niskanen Center and founded Bitecofer Forecasting. Known for her negative partisanship theory, she frequently appears on television as a political analyst and commentator on electoral trends and Democratic strategy.