Former president Donald Trump lost Tuesday night’s presidential debate to Vice President Kamala Harris — just ask the betting markets.
On Tuesday afternoon, before the debate, Polymarket — which bills itself as “the world’s largest prediction market — gave Trump a 53-46% chance of winning the November election.
But before the debate even ended, the numbers had changed drastically: Trump held just a one-point lead, 50-49%. When it ended, Harris was tied, 49-49%.
Polymarket also declared Harris the winner of the debate, 94%-6%.
Here are some of the debate highlights, courtesy of The Associated Press:
Trump’s mystery healthcare plan
For years, Trump has been promising a better healthcare plan than the Affordable Care Act. Asked again during the debate, Trump was unable to explain what he would do on healthcare.
“I have concepts of a plan,” he said. “I’m not president right now.”
He said he would reveal the plan “in the not-so-distant future,” something he’s promised before.
When they go low …
Harris did something a lot of advisers wanted her to do tonight: She has identified herself as someone who uplifts and Trump as someone who weighs down.
She criticized Trump for “belittling” and “name-calling” and said she will instead bring a “sense of optimism” as president.
At the same time, Harris didn’t shy away from hitting Trump with direct, cutting attacks, both on his actions as president and on his false claims about her record.
Harris noted that Trump called for executing the now-exonerated “Central Park Five”
Harris said Trump has a long history of racial division, going back to when his family’s company was investigated for refusing to rent to Black people decades ago.
She also mentioned that he called for the death penalty for the “Central Park Five,” who were falsely accused of rape, and spread false “birther” theories about President Barack Obama.
“I think the American people want better than that, want better than this,” Harris said
New York City Council Member Yusef Salaam, a member of the exonerated group of men known as the Central Park Five, will be speaking to journalists after the debate ends.
