(Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump has overtaken Democratic rival Joe Biden to stand when the favorite to secure the 2020 U.S. Presidential election on Europe-based betting exchange Betfair, the exchange said on Wednesday.
Trump’s odds, reflecting wagers matched on the peer-to-peer betting network, stood for evens, Betfair Exchange stated, versus 21-20 for Biden.
Betfair Exchange claimed four bets of over 10,000 pounds ($13,362) had been positioned on the platform over night, of what three were on Trump, while the biggest stake of the strategy so a lot, a 50,000 pound option, was positioned on the Republican nominee over the weekend.
These bets in part aided Trump to take the lead, after being neck-and-neck with Biden earlier this week, doing an extraordinary rehabilitation in the betting markets.
“In August, Trump had the most awful chances for re-election of any sitting President in defeat and history to Biden was looking more and more likely,” Darren Hughes, spokesperson at Flutter Entertainment system Betfair Exchange, believed.
A Reuters/Ipsos national opinion poll on Wednesday showed forty % of voters that are registered assistance Trump, in contrast to 47 % that stated they are going to vote for Biden.
Biden’s lead is basically the same over the previous three weeks, during what the two parties held conventions to nominate their applicants Biden and Trump for the presidency.
