While there is little time left for the US elections to be held in November 2024, the election race is heating up. While cryptocurrencies played a big role in this election, the likely candidate of the Democratic side, Kamala Harris, caught up with Donald Trump.
According to Polymarket data, while Trump and Harris' chances of winning are equal, the data shows that Trump's chance of being elected has decreased by 13 points, while Harris's chance of being elected has increased by 34 points.
Users of decentralized prediction platform Polymarket are currently predicting that former US President Donald Trump and incumbent Vice President Kamala Harris have a 49% chance of winning the upcoming November presidential election.
It is considered that this rise is due to Harris's election campaign starting to interact with the cryptocurrency industry and the steps it has taken towards the crypto industry.
“Harris for Crypto” Campaign!
Among these moves is the recently launched campaign. At this point, FOX Business reporter Eleanor Terrett reported that the US Democratic Party launched the “Harris for Crypto” campaign, with supporters including SkyBridge Capital founder Mark Cuban.
It was stated that the “Harris for Crypto” campaign aims to attract 40 million American voters who own digital assets and demonstrate the Democratic Party's stance on the promotion of blockchain and the cryptocurrency industry.
It was stated that the Crypto for Harris campaign has approximately 50 members, including billionaire entrepreneur and crypto advocate Mark Cuban, SkyBridge Capital founder and Trump critic Anthony Scaramucci.
Democratic Party's Wiley Nickel, who joined the Harris campaign for crypto, said:
“We are not giving the cryptocurrency issue to Trump. We want to encourage innovation and protect consumers.
“Allowing cryptocurrency to become a political football will leave the United States even further behind.”
Kamala Harris added two more former cryptocurrency advisors to her election campaign last week, showing that she is interested in this field. At this point, Harris included in her campaign David Plouffe, who serves on the advisory board of Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange, and Gene Sperling, a former board member of the blockchain payment company Ripple.