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Polymarket betters are predicting Democratic nominee Kamala Harris will beat Republican pick Donald Trump in the first presidential debate between the two candidates on Tuesday night, a poll on the prediction market’s website reveals.
According to a new poll, Polymarket betters predict that Harris will win the long-awaited televised event on ABC.
The Tuesday night debate marks the first since Trump and current U.S. President and former candidate Joe Biden faced off in June.
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Biden exited the race in July following his disastrous debate performance with Harris, the newly elected Democratic candidate.
Polymarket betters have long made political predictions about Trump and Harris, with users of the decentralized prediction market favoring the one-time reality television star to win the 2024 U.S. presidential election over the former top prosecutor with 52 percent of the vote.
Trump and Harris have been neck and neck in the polls, with the two candidates effectively tied ahead of this week’s debate as experts suggest ratings may surge past all-time-highs.
In fact, the majority of Polymarket betters predict that viewership will top 75 million, on par with the 84 million who tuned into Trump and Hillary Clinton’s debate in 2016.
Trump has largely embraced the blockchain sector, previously vowing to make the United States “the crypto capital of the planet.”
The former U.S. president
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