Tag: Mike Pence

Democratic challenger Joe Biden attracted 81% of wagers -- numbers that knocked his odds down to among their lowest of the 2020 presidential campaign. (Image: Carolyn Kaster/Associated Press)

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 […]

President Donald Trump's poor debate performance was surpassed thre days later by his postive coronavirus test. That prompted bookmakers around the world to suspend betting on the US presidential election. (Image: AP Photo)

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. […]

Many oddsmakers around the world shut down their presidential betting markets in the wake of news that President Trump had tested positive for COVID-19. (Image: Joshua Roberts/Reuters)

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: […]

Ladbrokes offers a smorgasbord of prop bets on when Donald Trump will leave office. You can even bet on him self-pardoning himself. (Image: Drew Angerer/Getty)

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 […]