FiveThirtyEight founder and editor-in-chief Nate Silver gave Hillary Clinton an almost 80 percent chance of defeating Donald Trump in the November election on Wednesday, thus almost assuring Trump is the clear favorite in the race.

Silver announced his predictions on Wednesday during an appearance on ABC’s “Good Morning America,” where he gave the presumptive Democratic nominee a 79-percent chance of winning the general election in November, compared with the presumptive Republican nominee’s measly 20-percent chance.

“If you want absurd specificity, I recently estimated Trump’s chance of becoming the GOP nominee at 2 percent,” Silver wrote.

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“We’re at halftime of the election right now. [Clinton]’s taking a 7-point, maybe a 10-point lead into halftime. There’s a lot of football left to be played. She’s ahead in almost every poll, every swing state, every national poll,” Silver said with confidence. “Trump has never been ahead of Clinton in the general election campaign. He did a great job of appealing to the 40 percent of the GOP he had to win the election, the primary — a lot different than winning 51 percent of 100 percent.”

Silver’s comments were swiftly followed by the release of a new national poll from Quinnipiac University showing Clinton and Trump locked in a dead heat and Trump leading by double-digit margins on the issues voters found most important.

Silver, who was credited with calling 49 states correctly in the 2008 presidential election and calling all 50 correctly in the 2012 election, woefully botched his predictions on the 2016 Republican primary.

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“I don’t think that Donald Trump is very likely to win the nomination in part because he’s not really a Republican,” Silver told journalist Mo Rocca way back in 2015.

Yeah, Silver – we’ll have to wait and see how that one turns out for you.

But wait! It gets even better. Back in August, Silver penned an article called “Donald Trump’s Six Stages of Doom.” In the piece, Silver predicted that, “Trump’s campaign will fail by one means or another. Like Cain, Bachmann, and Gingrich, Buchanan, Huckabee, and Forbes who came nowhere close to winning the Republican nomination.”

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“If you want absurd specificity, I recently estimated Trump’s chance of becoming the GOP nominee at 2 percent,” Silver wrote.

Two percent was a little off: Trump ultimately won 45 percent of the votes cast in the 17-way GOP primary, won 40 contests and over 13 million votes — the most votes ever garnered by a Republican during the primary season.

Silver even admitted back in August that he and his team were “going to make plenty of bad predictions over the course of the 2016 campaign.”

Nevertheless the media will report Silver’s fresh surety of Trump’s death sentence as inspired soothsaying.