{"id":905235,"date":"2026-11-04T05:22:14","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T05:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/905235\/"},"modified":"2026-11-04T05:22:14","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T05:22:14","slug":"prediction-markets-bet-democrats-have-a-100-chance-of-taking-control-of-the-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/905235\/","title":{"rendered":"Prediction markets bet Democrats have a 100% chance of taking control of the House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (TNND) \u2014 Kalshi prediction markets are stating that Democrats have a 100% chance of taking the House. This prediction comes shortly after the polls closed on Election Day.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2026-elections\/house-results\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NBC News predicted <\/a>that Democrats will win control of the House and will wind up with a 53-seat majority.<\/p>\n<p>It is also predicting that the Democrats will also take the Senate, Kalshi predicts that Democrats will get 90 or more seats.<\/p>\n<p>Former <a href=\"https:\/\/thenationaldesk.com\/news\/americas-news-now\/roy-cooper-wins-us-senate-seat-north-carolina-united-states-democrat-defeat-michael-whatley-gop-republican-election-2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Democratic North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper<\/a> defeated his GOP opponent Michael Whatley for the Senate. He will succeed current GOP Sen. Thom Tillis.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Democratic Georgia Sen. Jon Ossoff won reelection, but the governor\u2019s seat flipped from <a href=\"https:\/\/thenationaldesk.com\/news\/americas-news-now\/georgia-senator-says-2028-may-be-theoretical-if-democrats-lose-the-midterms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">red to blue.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Polls from The New York Times and Siena University projected a Democratic sweep of toss-up races that could determine <a href=\"https:\/\/thenationaldesk.com\/news\/americas-news-now\/latest-batch-of-polls-projects-blue-tsunami-bringing-senate-flip-democrats-republicans-midterm-elections-2026-rrt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">which party will control the Senate.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We were sort of in an ambiguous place where it wasn&#8217;t quite clear whether pollsters and modelers should &#8216;own&#8217; the fact that they were projecting a big night for Democrats\u2014and own the risk of another embarrassing systematic polling error,&#8221; political analyst Nate Silver said in a blog post. \u201cThe NYT\/Siena polls resolve that, in my opinion, in Democrats&#8217; favor, for better or worse. Polls show that Democrats will win the Senate, perhaps soundly.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON (TNND) \u2014 Kalshi prediction markets are stating that Democrats have a 100% chance of taking the House.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":905236,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[28,112],"class_list":["post-905235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-markets","tag-business","tag-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=905235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/905236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=905235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=905235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=905235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}