Since becoming the Democratic Party’s presumptive nominee, Kamala Harris has enjoyed a strong start. Now, she is the Political betting odds favorite against Republican nominee Donald Trump. Gamblers continue to gravitate to Harris. Cause of the “news” media acting as her publicity team. Harris refuses to talk to the media. Yet she gets the most favorable coverage since Barack Obama. The question is if Harris has an astroturf lead based on imagery and propaganda or if it is based on reality.
2024 US Presidential Election
| Date: | November 5, 2024 |
|---|
US Presidential Election SBG Odds:
| Candidate | Odds |
|---|---|
| Kamala Harris | -136 |
| Donald Trump | +117 |
| All Others | +25834 or higher |
2024 US Presidential Election Odds Overview
The election has an interesting offshore betting dynamic. To illuminate, when voters are polled on who they will vote for, Harris has a small lead. But when voters are polled on issues, Trump’s positions win by large margins. Thus, conflicting factors continue to clash with the betting odds.
At a Friday event, Harris made a serious, unforced error during a speech. Correlate she admitted that bread and ground beef had increased in price by 50% since the pandemic. In turn, Donald Trump immediately made social media posts showing the video of Harris’ self-own. The ad ends with a line by Trump saying, “I approve this message!”
The problem for Harris is that she can run, but she can’t hide from the Biden-Harris record of record, runaway inflation. Harris cast the deciding vote in the Senate for the current economic programs that are eating American budgets alive.
Despite getting a pass from the legacy media, social media is calling Harris out for her responsibility in the economic and border failures of America.
The key to the 2024 election is for Trump to gain some sense of self-control. Specifically, he must end his unlikeable image. Especially to suburban women.
This week in Chicago, there is the threat of far bigger protests than what took place there in 1968. Pro-Palestinian protesters vow to “Make it Great Like ’68.” They are instructing protesters to take police beatings and arrests to make their point deliberately. The leading protest group, Behind Enemy Lines, has posters up throughout the city that say “Fight Back for Gaza.” Among other slogans.
The last thing that Kamala Harris and the Democrats want is violence in the streets. The Democrats are trying to walk a fine line between not driving away wealthy Jewish donors who have long been the backbone of their fundraising efforts and the pro-Palestinian groups with large pockets of voters in Minnesota and Michigan.
So far, Harris has dealt with the tricky Presidential election odds issue with silence and evasion, as she has with everything else. Perhaps the most memorable political convention in American political history was in 1968. Correlate that year the Democrats met in Chicago. At that time, incumbent President Lyndon Johnson had stood down the previous March because of the Vietnam War.
Subsequently, Johnson’s Vice President, Hubert Humphrey, became the presumptive Democrat nominee without contesting any primaries. Following his June win in the California primary, Robert F Kennedy, brother of the slain President John F Kennedy, was assassinated. In addition to the tumult, civil rights icon Martin Luther King was assassinated in April. Thus, the war and perpetual race riots ignited throughout America. Additionally, the assassinations created a powder keg in the smothering summer heat of Chicago.