{"id":56064,"date":"2024-10-07T03:34:17","date_gmt":"2024-10-07T07:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/?p=56064"},"modified":"2024-10-07T03:34:17","modified_gmt":"2024-10-07T07:34:17","slug":"trump-leads-harris-by-3-in-betting-markets-claims-elon-musk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/trump-leads-harris-by-3-in-betting-markets-claims-elon-musk\/56064\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump leads Harris by 3% in betting markets, claims Elon Musk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent post on X (formerly Twitter), Elon Musk highlighted the ongoing shifts in political betting markets, where Donald Trump is now leading Vice President Kamala Harris by 3%. Musk noted that betting markets may offer a more accurate picture of the political landscape compared to traditional polls, as \u201cactual money is on the line.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Musk\u2019s comments came in response to a post from DogeDesigner, showing that Trump has garnered 51% support in the betting markets on Polymarket, with a trading volume exceeding $300 million. In comparison, Harris currently holds 48%, with a volume of over $250 million. The data underscores the close competition between the two political figures, as the U.S. gears up for the 2024 presidential election.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Trump now leading Kamala by 3% in betting markets. More accurate than polls, as actual money is on the line. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WrsqZ2z8pp\">https:\/\/t.co\/WrsqZ2z8pp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1843132050242777187?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 7, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Musk\u2019s take on betting markets being more reliable than traditional polling has sparked discussions on whether market-based predictions could eventually play a larger role in election forecasting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent post on X (formerly Twitter), Elon Musk highlighted the ongoing shifts in political betting markets, where Donald\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49925,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}