Trump extends lead on Polymarket after pivotal speech with Elon Musk

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump prolonged his lead on Polymarket over Democrat presidential runner Kamala Harris after a robust speech with Elon Musk, the billionaire Tesla CEO.
In line with data offered by Polymarket, Trump is main with a 50.8% likelihood of profitable the forthcoming U.S. elections. Harris at present stands at 48.4% odds of turning into the subsequent U.S. president.
The full quantity of bets on the November presidential election winner in the marketplace prediction platform has reached $1.35 billion. Trump leads the chart with a $318 million quantity, adopted by Harris’ $258 million.
Trump, as soon as once more, hinted at releasing Ross Ulbricht, Silk Street founder, from jail in his speech on Oct. 5 in Butler, Pennsylvania. Nonetheless, neither Trump nor Musk made any direct claims in regards to the crypto trade.
Musk strongly and repetitively invited everybody to vote within the November elections and claimed that “in case you don’t, this would be the final election.”
Per a crypto.information report on Oct. 5, Ben Horowitz, a enterprise capitalist who beforehand supported Trump earlier than President Joe Biden left the race, shifted his focus to Harris.
Horowitz mentioned that he’ll make a “vital” donation to Harris’ presidential marketing campaign as he’s eager for her tech insurance policies to assist industries like crypto and synthetic intelligence.
The crypto market witnessed a robust bullish momentum following the Trump and Musk speech on the weekend. The worldwide crypto market cap surged by 1.7% prior to now 24 hours and is at present sitting at $2.31 trillion, in keeping with data from CoinGecko.