If a professor at Stony Brook University is correct, Donald J Trump will be the next President of the United States.

Professor Helmut Norpoth’s statistical modeling gives Trump with a 97 percent chance of beating Hillary Clinton in the general election. He'd have an even better shot against Bernie Sanders - 99 percent.

'The bottom line is that the primary model, using also the cyclical movement, makes it almost certain that Donald Trump will be the next president,' Norpoth told Stony Brook's school newspaper, The Statesman, 'if he’s a nominee of the [Republican] party.'

If a professor at Stony Brook University is correct, Donald J Trump will be the next President of the United States. He's seen here on Wednesday with televangelist Pat Roberts in Virginia Beach

If Prof. Norpoth's model is correct, Hillary Clinton will get creamed by Donald Trump in the general election

The numbers don't lie: Norpoth's model has accurately predicted the winner of every national election since 1912, The Statesman reports, except the election of 1960.

One of the closest elections in U.S. history, John F. Kennedy bested Richard Nixon by 0.17 percent or 112,827 votes.

Norpoth's model is correct 96.1 percent of the time, suggesting victory is on the horizon for Trump.

Professor Helmut Norpoth’s statistical modeling shows that Trump has a 97 percent chance of beating Hillary Clinton in the general election

'When I started out with this kind of display a few months ago, I thought it was sort of a joke.' Norpoth said at a gathering Monday at the SUNY Global Center in Manhattan, according to The Stateman.

He added, 'Well, I’ll tell you right now, it ain’t a joke anymore.'

Trump has won three out of four GOP contests this year and is ahead in polling in most states that vote on Tuesday.

Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio are trying to catch up, but the GOP senators have had to spend much of their time this year pushing out low-polling candidates with little chance of winning who were siphoning off support from their own bids.

Cruz has won one contest, Iowa, in January, and Rubio has won none. He's come in second twice in a row, though, in South Carolina and Nevada.

Trump's success in the primaries is part of the reason the numbers skew so heavily in his favor as that's an important part of Norpoth's model.

Now the favorite is looking ahead to the Super Tuesday contests.

While a lot of polling hasn't been done in the 12 states where Republicans will head to the polls or caucus sites, Trump has a 12 point lead in Georgia, according to the Real Clear Politics polling average.

Norpoth's model has accurately predicted the winner of every national election since 1912, except the election of 1960 between John F. Kennedy (left) and Richard Nixon (right)

He has a 24 point advantage in Massachusetts, a six point lead in Minnesota, a seven point lead in Oklahoma, a 21 point lead in Alabama, a four point lead in Tennessee, a six point advantage in Virginia, a four point advantage in Alaska and is ahead by 15 points in Vermont.

Ted Cruz looks strong in his home state of Texas, though one survey had him tied with Trump today in the Lone Star state, where the Republican candidates gather in Houston for tonight's debate.

Cruz was also four points ahead in Arkansas, when the last poll in that state was taken in early February, released a day after Cruz's win in the Iowa caucuses.

The final state, Colorado is holding a non-binding caucus on Tuesday, which means the delegates are free to go to the candidate of their choosing.

The last poll taken in Colorado had Ben Carson ahead, but that was back in November when the retired neurosurgeon was coming in at first place in Iowa as well.

Overall, Norpoth said a Republican has a 61 percent chance of winning the general election come November.

Clinton would have a 55 percent chance of winning if she went up against Cruz or Rubio and Norpoth's model says she'd have 0.3 percent on either of them in the popular vote category.

They'd beat Sanders, though, he said, by 0.6 percent. That boosts their odds of winning to 60 percent, respectively.

If Trump is the nominee, those odds go up substantially, Norpoth said.