Relax, FRiend! IMHO, the are whistling past the graveyard, and desperately hope what they say happens.
I think they’re wrong.
I heard the same level of certainty about Reagan not making it in 1976 and 1980. 1976 was a squeaker, and they were dead wrong in 1980.
Remember them laughing at the idea of taking the senate up until the vote on Colorado came in. They are certain in their own little bubble world.