{"id":234416,"date":"2026-06-21T11:57:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T11:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=234416"},"modified":"2026-06-21T11:57:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T11:57:08","slug":"people-are-betting-on-elections-in-prediction-markets-congress-is-watching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=234416","title":{"rendered":"People are betting on elections in prediction markets. Congress is watching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As prediction markets stir debate over betting on politics, the Los Angeles mayoral race raised a new question: What happens when people wager on elections&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/politics\/story\/2026-06-16\/people-are-betting-on-elections-congress-is-watching\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As prediction markets stir debate over betting on politics, the Los Angeles mayoral race raised<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":234417,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/234416-people-are-betting-on-elections-in-prediction-markets-congress-is-watching.jpg",1200,630,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/234416-people-are-betting-on-elections-in-prediction-markets-congress-is-watching-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/234416-people-are-betting-on-elections-in-prediction-markets-congress-is-watching-300x158.jpg",300,158,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/234416-people-are-betting-on-elections-in-prediction-markets-congress-is-watching-768x403.jpg",640,336,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/234416-people-are-betting-on-elections-in-prediction-markets-congress-is-watching-1024x538.jpg",640,336,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/234416-people-are-betting-on-elections-in-prediction-markets-congress-is-watching.jpg",1200,630,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/234416-people-are-betting-on-elections-in-prediction-markets-congress-is-watching.jpg",1200,630,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/234416-people-are-betting-on-elections-in-prediction-markets-congress-is-watching-1024x538.jpg",1024,538,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/234416-people-are-betting-on-elections-in-prediction-markets-congress-is-watching-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/234416-people-are-betting-on-elections-in-prediction-markets-congress-is-watching-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=38\" rel=\"category\">Politics<\/a>","tag_info":"Politics","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=234416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/234417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=234416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=234416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=234416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}