George Elliott Morris (born June 7, 1996) is an American data journalist who is best known for his work on election polling and predictive analytics.
[3] While still an undergraduate, Morris became the "breakout star of the 2018 election" for his project models correctly predicting that the Democrats would regain the House.
In February 2020, Morris referred to bad 2016 U.S. presidential election predictions as "lying to people" and "editorial malpractice".
[6] On August 1, 2020, his model gave Joe Biden an 87 percent chance of winning the election, drawing criticism from Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight who said: "I am not necessarily convinced.
[8] In May 2023, ABC News hired Morris to lead FiveThirtyEight as editorial director of data analytics following Silver's exit from the site.