Andrew Yang and Pete Buttigieg Have Blown Up on Twitter, and in Betting Markets

It is very early in the Democratic Primary race (the first state primaries are still nearly a year away) but two lesser-known candidates have burst onto the scene in recent weeks, from relative obscurity: Andrew Yang, a tech entrepreneur, and Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana. While this bump may look more like a blip in the chart below, betting markets now rank Buttigieg and Yang 5th and 6th, respectively, in the Democratic field, ahead of clearly-legitimate candidates like Elizabeth Warren and Cory Booker. Indeed, most polls show Yang and Buttigieg receiving 1% of fewer of the vote, hardly an indicator of a real chance at receiving the nomination.

Source: readypipe.com