As states certify the Joe Biden election victory, the president-elect’s transition has begun. Even Fox News personalities are admitting defeat. But some sportsbooks are still holding back settlement which is stirring ire amongst bettors. One of the notable holdouts as of Wednesday morning, Betfair is mum on when settlement will […]
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Election Betting Numbers Keep Adding Up for a Biden Victory
As Democratic challenger Joe Biden takes in larger amounts of money, and with polls in battleground states and nationwide turning sharply against him, President Donald Trump’s re-election odds climbed to their highest points of the campaign. After taking them down following Trump’s positive test for COVID-19, overseas books put Trump’s […]
Books Suspend Presidential Election Betting amid Trump’s COVID Uncertainty
With a few exceptions, betting markets across the world suspended US presidential election wagering in the wake of President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump testing positive for COVID-19. Shops from the United Kingdom to Australia took odds off the board and halted betting on the hotly contested election. […]
Trump COVID-19 Announcement Rocks Presidential Betting Markets
Donald Trump’s positive COVID-19 test has thrown a new degree of uncertainty into the US presidential election – enough so that bookmakers around the world no longer feel confident offering odds on the contest. President Trump announced that he had tested positive in the early hours of Friday morning. Oddsmakers: […]
Wanna Bet on When Donald Trump Leaves Office? There’s a Prop for That
One of the tweets on President Donald Trump’s Twitter feed is a cover of Time magazine with various Trump campaign signs going off into the distant future. “Trump 2024,†followed by “Trump 2028,†“Trump 2032,†“Trump 2036,†and so on. The October 22, 2018, cover story in Time centered on […]