Trump's Polymarket Election Odds Top 65% - As Site Investigates Big Bets

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49% : Also noteworthy: Trump beat Hillary Clinton in 2016 despite facing roughly 17% betting market-implied winning probability.
44% : Yet popular polling-based prediction models like Nate Silver's Silver Bulletin and FiveThirtyEight both give Harris and Trump 50% respective odds to win the election..
42% : The betting odds of former President Donald Trump winning next month's election rose to their highest level since President Joe Biden ceded way to Vice President Kamala Harris in July, though the increasingly popular election betting platform Polymarket reportedly is investigating the source of the massive wagers driving the odds shift amid scrutiny into the eight-figure bets on Trump.
38% : Bloomberg noted the $43 million placed on Trump and other victorious Republican election scenarios across four Polymarket accounts are not based domestically, according to an anonymous source, corroborating a Friday report in Reuters.
30% : The trend toward Trump comes as Polymarket looks into the source of recent bets which contributed to the tilt and whether they came from U.S. entities, Bloomberg reported Tuesday, citing unnamed sources.

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