This is nothing short of a catastrophe for Kamala Harris.
It caught her off guard and sent Democrats spiraling into a panic.
Now her plans are going to be ruined by this disaster that will cripple her campaign.
When Kamala Harris first became the nominee, the media was thrilled, and they did everything they could to make a celebrity out of her.
Since then, she’s wilted under the spotlight and showed once again why her campaign for president in 2020 fared so badly.
Harris is simply not a good candidate and neither is her running mate Tim Walz.
Both have a level of stage fright and awkwardness that’s bizarre to see in someone running for the highest office in the land.
Harris has a tendency to freeze up and start howling when she gets nervous and Walz was visibly nervous during his disastrous debate with J.D. Vance.
Now the betting odds have started to reflect the changing state of the race as a result of the mistakes Harris and Walz have made and the new odds look very bad for the Democrats.
According to USA Today, “Former President Donald Trump took the lead over Vice President Kamala Harris in the betting odds for the White House for the first time since the Sept. 10 presidential debate.”
“Trump’s largest lead at the betting houses USA TODAY has regularly surveyed comes at BetOnline where he stands -140 to Harris’ +120.”
“The action, which U.S. bookmakers cannot legally take part in, held steady through September but has seen Trump come back into favor over the past two weeks.”
Many political experts view betting odds as a more reliable indicator of the race than the polls as the odds take everything into account.
“The betting favorite has only lost twice since 1866, according to the Conversation, a nonprofit news organization,” the article continues.
“The most recent upset came in 2016 when then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was favored over Trump throughout the campaign, only to lose.”
“The other upset came in 1948, when Democrat Harry Truman beat eight-to-one odds to defeat Republican Thomas Dewey.”
These were some of the biggest upsets in American presidential history, where every other time, the betting favorite has won the election.
It’s worth pointing out too that Trump has generally outperformed both his polls and his betting odds when he upset Clinton in 2016 and nearly beat Biden in 2020 despite the prognosis looking like a Biden landslide.
If he outperforms the polls and betting odds this time as well, he’ll be cruising to a comfortable victory over Kamala Harris.
This news is surely going to stoke even more panic among the Democrats.