Top Irish bettor Paddy Power says it has shelled out more than $1 million to customers who've bet on Hillary Clinton to be America's next president because Donald Trump's chances of victory are now as "patchy as his tan."
"Despite Trump's 'Make America Great Again' message appealing to many disillusioned voters, it looks as though America is going to put a woman in the White House," Paddy Power spokesman Féilim Mac An Iomaire said.
"Recent betting trends have shown one-way traffic for Hillary and punters seemed to have called it 100 percent correct.
"Trump gave it a hell of a shot going from a rank outsider to the Republican candidate, but the recent flood of revelations have halted his momentum and his chances now look as patchy as his tan."
Paddy Power says Clinton has a virtually unstoppable 85.7 percent chance — 2/11 odds — of winning the election. Trump trails with just 18.2 percent, with odds of 9/2.
Dermot McEvoy, author of "The 13th Apostle: A Novel of a Dublin Family, Michael Collins, and the Irish Uprising," lamented in a column for Irish Central that he'd "foolishly" bet one euro on a Trump victory during a visit to Dublin.
"But there may be a flicker of hope for my lonely [one euro] bet," McEvoy added, pointing to a Paddy Power statement about the distant possibility of an upset.
"Should Trump upset the odds and become 45th President, it will trigger the biggest political payout in bookmaking history and leave Paddy Power with some very expensive pie on its face," the betting firm declared.
The Daily Mail reported that in 2012, Paddy Power called President Barack Obama's re-election two days before the vote and paid out $700,000.
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