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Originally Posted by Mazpart
All the betting sites have Trump winning easily. They are pretty much always right
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This is what Oddschecker said today:
"Joe Biden: +300 Elizabeth Warren: +500
Pete Buttigieg: +600 Bernie Sanders: +650
Kamala Harris: +800 Andrew Yang: +1600
Elizabeth Warren is now as short as +500 to attain the Democratic ticket for the 2020 US Presidential Election.
The veteran senator has seen her chances of taking on Trump quadruple in as many months, having been a +2800 outside at the end of March.
In relative terms, those figures mean that oddsmakers have increased her chances from 3.5% to over 16%.
Bernie Sanders, long-time favorite in the market before Biden officially announced his campaign, has also dropped behind Pete Buttigieg in the race.
Kamala Harris makes up the top five and is the only other candidate who is deemed to be in with a chance; Andrew Yang is as long as +2500 with some books.
Oddschecker spokesperson Pete Watt: “The polls and the books are in agreement on Warren’s rise, with the Senator this week achieving double-digit numbers for the first time since announcing her campaign
“Bettors have also fallen into line, with Warren accounting for over a quarter - 27.4% - of bets placed in the previous quarter.
“Joe Biden may still be the favorite, but the race is far from run and the activity on this market will only increase as we draw closer to the election.”
What this says to me is Trump is in trouble at this moment.
With 18 months to go, however, it's not to say he will stay in this trouble all the way to the end. Really a lot can happen between now than then.
But to make that happen, Trump is going to have to change up from 2016 to win. His popularity for the past 3 years is stalled out at 42%, and he simply needs more voters to win in 2020 than he has now.
To get them, he will have to go hunting for them, something he hasn't done since he won 3 years ago.