During an Overtime With Bill Maher segment, the panel mocked Republicans dumping money into an election prediction market in Donald Trump’s favor of winning the race.
The Wall Street Journal released a report on Friday indicating that Trump’s sudden surge on the election prediction site Polymarket may be due to manipulation. The outlet noted that four accounts have collectively moved approximately $30 million into bets favoring a Trump victory.
During a panel consisting of Mark Cuban, David Hogg, and Joe Scarborough, host Bill Maher asked for their thoughts on the matter as Trump’s chance of winning the election has skyrocketed on the prediction site. Billionaire Cuban revealed during the conversation that the company does not allow American citizens to place bets on U.S. elections.
“If you put enough money on it, the odds will change. But you can’t be a U.S. citizen and bet on the US election on policy market. There’s other smaller markets, cashy, I think it’s called where you can. So it’s not really an indication of anything,” Cuban told the panel.
Hogg then chimed in to joke that Republicans are gaslighting themselves by dumping money into the prediction site in order to boost Trump’s perceived odds of winning the election.
“I think the irony of all that is a lot of these Republicans are buying it, thinking that that’s going to determine the outcome
Scarborough then ended the segment by adding that Republicans are more concerned with the views of foreigners via election prediction markets rather than American polls.
“This is like Republicans are excited saying we don’t care about the polls or the early voting numbers,” said Scarborough. “Look at what the foreigners are saying!”
Watch the clip above via HBO’s Real Time.