In what looks like a replay of the 2016 election, three of the larger improvements this week were from Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders, and Hillary Clinton.
Trump’s odds saw another improvement, this time with the payout dropping from last week’s 3.38X to this week’s 3.33X. These are the best odds he has had in 9 weeks.
Hillary Clinton’s odd’s improved despite her saying she will not run again.The payout improved from 35.5X to 34.0X, her highest in 6 weeks. This moved her up one spot from 13th place to 12th place.
Al Franken had the biggest move for the week as his payout improved from 57.1X to 49.5X. This was enough to move him from 30th place to 23rd place. That is the highest he has been at this entire cycle. Franken made news this week as he grilled Jeff Sessions in the Senate hearings.
For the second straight week Donald Trump saw a slight improvement in odds. This week his payout decreased from 3.42X to 3.38X. That is the best odds he has had in the last 7 weeks.
The controversy with Russia using Facebook might be impacting Mark Zuckerberg’s odds. His payout increased this week from 23.8X to 24.5X. His recent peak was at 23.3X five weeks ago. He remains in 7th place overall, a place he has had the last ten weeks.
For the third straight week, Oprah remained one of the hottest candidates. Her payout decreased from 27.3X to 24.8X as she moved from 11th place to 8th. Just 4 weeks ago, her payout was at 52.5X and she was in 30th place.
Nikki Haley has been perhaps the one member of the administration without much controversy. She has also increased her profile with North Korea and Iran at the top of the news. This week her payout decreased from 46.0X to 45.5X. That was enough to move her from 24th place to 22nd.
Donald Trump’s odds saw a small improvement this week with the payout declining from 3.45X to 3.42X. That is his best showing since the beginning of September. That is still well below his all time high when the payout was at only 2.41X the first week of January.
Mike Pence continues to be in second place but he took a big drop. His payout increased from 9.2X to 9.8X, his lowest showing. He reached his peak the last week of December at 8.0X.
Kamala Harris continued to be the hottest name, once again improving this time from 17.6X to 17.3X, a new high. She is now comfortably in 4th place overall behind Warren and ahead of Sanders.
The hot name from last week was Oprah. She moved up once again this time from 28.6X to 27.3X. That was not enough to get her into the top 10 however, as she remained in 11th place. Cory Booker is in 10th place, just ahead of her at 27.2X.
