Kamala Harris to Beat Donald Trump in First Presidential Debate, Polymarket Poll
Date: 2024-09-10 Author: Gabriel Deangelo Categories: IN WORLD
According to a forecast on the prediction market site Polymarket, marketers are predicting that Democratic nominee Kamala Harris will defeat Republican nominee Donald Trump in the first presidential debate on Tuesday night.
Kamala Harris and Donald Trump Prepare for Presidential Debate A new poll shows Polymarket users predicting Harris to win the highly anticipated debate on ABC.
Tuesday night's debate will be the first since Trump and current US President and former candidate Joe Biden met in June.
Biden dropped out of the race in July after a poor performance in a debate with Harris, the new Democratic nominee.
Polymarket has a long history of making political predictions about Trump and Harris. Users of the decentralized prediction market overwhelmingly predict the former reality TV star will win the 2024 US presidential election over the former attorney general, giving Trump 52% of the vote.
Trump and Harris are neck and neck in the polls, with experts predicting the polls could reach record highs this week ahead of the debate.
A majority of Polymarket participants also predict that viewership will exceed 75 million, which would be comparable to the 84 million who watched Trump and Hillary Clinton debate in 2016.
Candidates and the Crypto Sector Trump has been a big supporter of the blockchain sector, previously promising to make the US “the crypto capital of the planet.”
The former US president recently took to his social media pages to promote World Liberty Financial, a new crypto platform created by his sons Eric and Donald Jr.
However, a slew of scams surrounding the project have emerged in recent weeks, raising concerns among some Trump allies.
Harris has yet to take an official position on digital assets, though some in the crypto community believe her association with Biden’s pro-regulatory stance could hurt her image.
Crypto For Harris, a left-leaning digital asset advocacy group, held its first meeting last month with several prominent politicians in an attempt to drum up support for the Democratic nominee.
“Only one person running for president has called crypto a scam, and that’s Donald Trump,” Rep. Wylie Nickel told viewers on the livestream, referencing the former president’s old anti-crypto posts on Platform X.
Meanwhile, Trump and Harris’ running mates, Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) and Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH), will face off in a CBS debate on Oct. 1.
