{"id":3738,"date":"2024-12-04T22:01:46","date_gmt":"2024-12-04T22:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=3738"},"modified":"2024-12-04T22:01:46","modified_gmt":"2024-12-04T22:01:46","slug":"trump-to-swap-hegseth-for-desantis-heres-what-polymarket-odds-for-defense-secretary-pick-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=3738","title":{"rendered":"Trump To Swap Hegseth For DeSantis? Here&#8217;s What Polymarket Odds For Defense Secretary Pick Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>With more pressure facing <strong>Donald Trump<\/strong>&#8216;s<strong> <\/strong>Department of Defense secretary pick <strong>Pete Hegseth, <\/strong>the president-elect could turn to a former political foe to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/news\/24\/11\/41952962\/trumps-surprise-defense-secretary-pick-pete-hegseth-jolts-wall-street\">fill the role.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>What Happened<\/strong>: Florida Governor <strong>Ron DeSantis<\/strong> \u2014 who ran against Trump in the Republican primary for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/news\/24\/01\/36709808\/ron-desantis-ends-presidential-race-backs-donald-trump-ahead-of-new-hampshire-primaries\">the 2024 election<\/a> \u2014 is a \u201cPlan B\u201d option due to concerns over Hegseth\u2019s qualifications and past comments. <\/p>\n<p>On <strong>Polymarket<\/strong>, a betting <a href=\"https:\/\/polymarket.com\/event\/who-will-be-trumps-defense-secretary\">market <\/a>for who will be Trump&#8217;s Defense Secretary placed DeSantis alongside Hegseth. Here are the current favorites on the site:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>DeSantis: 28%<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Hegseth: 29%<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Joni Ernst: 15%<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Mike Waltz: 8%<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The market resolves as Yes and pays out at $1 for the winning person if they are approved as the Defense Secretary by June 30, 2025. <\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, DeSantis was trading as high as 49% on the prediction market, with Hegseth falling from odds of 87% back in November.<\/p>\n<p>On Polymarket, users can deposit funds using <strong>USDC <\/strong>(CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/\">USDC<\/a>) via the &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/24\/12\/42327943\/trump-could-nominate-former-political-foe-desantis-for-defense-secretary-over-hegseth-report-says-here-are-the-po\" alt=\"Trump\" to swap hegseth for desantis here what polymarket odds defense secretary pick show>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With more pressure facing Donald Trump&#8216;s Department of Defense secretary pick Pete Hegseth, the president-elect could turn to a former political foe to fill the role. What Happened: Florida Governor Ron DeSantis \u2014 who ran against Trump in the Republican primary for the 2024 election \u2014 is a \u201cPlan B\u201d option due to concerns over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-3738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}