Half of Gambling Public Believes There Will Be Another Debate
If you could not get enough of Tuesday night's Presidential Debate, brace yourselves....we could have another coming in the not-so-distant future.
Half of gamblers believe there will be a second debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and the former president Donald J. Trump.
The market opened at Polymarket early Wednesday morning with 57% believing there would be another debate. That number dropped to 48% by late morning.
Immediately following Tuesday night's debate, BetOnline confirmed that Harris had once again become the favorite as money came flooding in on the VP. Trump was listed as the favorite heading into the weekend.
BetOnline.ag tweeted minutes before the debate that 50.9% of the money wagered on the election was on Harris while 49.1% was on Donald Trump.
Now, the money has significantly shifted toward Harris, with 54.4% of the handle on Vice President Kamala Harris.
The website's odds have flipped since Tuesday morning. Here are the latest numbers:
Election Odds (Sept. 10, 9 a.m.)
Harris +100
Trump -120
Election Odds (Sept. 10, 11 p.m.)
By Wednesday morning, these numbers remained the same.
In a race for the White House that surveys say is exceptionally close, with both sides looking for an edge, it was the Democrats who came away more exuberant after the nationally televised debate.
“She prosecuted Donald Trump tonight,” said Alina Taylor, 51, a high school special education teacher who joined hundreds of people on a football field of the historically Black Salem Baptist Church of Abington in a suburb of Philadelphia, where people watched on a 33-foot (10 meter) screen.
As for Trump, she said, “I was appalled” by his performance. “People were laughing at him because he wasn’t making very much sense.”
In what was probably the most talked about moment of the debate, Trump falsely accused illegal immigrants of eating people's pets in Springfield, Ohio.
BetOnline, which offered some 50+ prop bets on Tuesday night's debate, had actually listed Trump's mention of "eating cats" at 50-1 odds. That gambling site confirmed they would be grading a number of winning bets for this prop.
How This Market Will Resolve
On September 10, Donald Trump and Kamala Harris participated in ABC's presidential debate.
This market will resolve to "Yes" if there is a second debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris by November 4, 2024, 11:59 PM ET. Otherwise, this market will resolve to "No."
The resolution source is a consensus of credible reporting.
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