Money is continuing to pour in on the emerging hot ticket in US politics.
British bookmakers have revealed their percentage chance they’re giving the unconventional Beto O’Rourke in this year’s race to the Texas Senate seat.
The seat that has not been Democrat in 30 years, but Oddschecker can exclusively reveal that O’Rourke now has a 33% implied chance of winning the midterm election.
That equates to the bookies' price of 6/4, with those who set the odds predicting Ted Cruz has a 66% implied probability chance of winning the seat.
In terms of running for president, O’Rourke has had his odds cut massively over the past few weeks, from 100/1 into as short as 20/1 at the time of writing (September 20).
He’s been heavily backed to win the election, with a whopping 32% of all bets in the last week, more so than any other potential candidate.
Elsewhere, Donald Trump is favourite to be re-elected in 2020 at 7/4 best price, currently the favourite in the market by a considerable margin.
The second favourite to win the election is Kamala Harris, who’s seen a plethora of cash staked on her over the past two weeks. Harris has been cut from 33/1 into just 8/1.
Oddschecker spokesperson George Elek: “It looks like a two-way tussle between Ted Cruz and the emerging Beto O’Rourke in the race for the US Senate seat for Texas.
“Bookies estimations are that O’Rourke is an underdog to take the seat off of Cruz. However, considering there hasn’t been a Democrat in charge for 30 year – it’s certainly closer than it has been in recent memory.”
