Trump Favored To Win By Polymarket Betters After Assassination Attempt
Polymarket betters have all eyes on Republican frontrunner Donald Trump as they place his odds on winning the November 2024 election against current U.S. President Joe Biden at 69%, data from the prediction market reveals.
According to a bet on Polymarket’s website, the former U.S. president significantly leads against Biden, who has only received 19% of all votes as of Tuesday night.
Trailing behind Biden and Trump are current U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris with 6%, Michelle Obama with 2%, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr with 1%.
2% of betters are further predicting that another democratic politician could win the election, though, with the Democratic National Convention (DNC) just shy of a month away, that option may be growing more and more unlikely.
Trump’s overwhelming popularity amongst the prediction market’s voters comes just two days after his assinanation attempt at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania when Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, took aim at the controversial political figure.
Trump was left injured alongisde two of the campaign events’ attendees, while Corey Comperatore, a 47 year old father and firefighter, was mortally wounded.
“I’m supposed to be dead,” Trump told reporters en route to the National Republican Convention (RNC) in Milwaukee, Wisconsin where is expected to formally accept his party’s nomination in a speech Thursday. “I’m not supposed to be here.”
The one-time U.S. President is said to have thrown away his planned speech and is drafting a new one ahead of the convention.
“It’s a very surreal experience, and you never know what you’re going to do until a thing like that happens,” Trump said.
While the shooter’s motive remains unknown, Biden urged Americans to “lower the temperature” amid
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