By Wayne Root
I’ve been a Las Vegas oddsmaker and sports gaming expert
for four decades- long before I became known as a nationally syndicated
conservative talk show host.
I understand odds and gambling in a way that no other
conservative media personality, host, or politician in this country could.
And I can tell you something is very wrong with this
presidential election. It reminds me of a fixed football game. Remember the
famous fixed 1978 game between the New York Giants and Philadelphia Eagles. The
Giants quarterback handed the ball off. The running back didn’t want it. It
fell on the ground. Herm Edwards of the Eagles picked it up and ran it into the
end zone with seconds left for a last second victory. Every bettor in the world
knows that game was fixed. It doesn’t matter if you can prove it. We
all know.
Gamblers feel the same way about this presidential
election. This presidential election is rancid. It feels as fixed as that
Giants-Eagles NFL football game. Let me give you the details of this election-
from a gambler’s perspective.
Trump entered the night a 2 to 1 underdog. As soon as the
polls started to close and the picture became clear, Trump’s odds quickly moved
to even money. Then Trump became the slight favorite. Then a moderate favorite.
Then a 2-to-1 favorite.
Then 3 to 1. 4 to 1. 5 to 1. 6 to 1. 7 to 1. Finally,
Trump moved to 8 to 1 favorite.
What does all this mean? Bettors putting their money on
the line during Election Night have always proven to be deadly accurate. Smart
bettors can clearly see what direction a race is taking. Bettors around the
world clearly saw what I saw, when they stared at the electoral map- Trump
was headed for an electoral landslide.
But something wasn’t quite right. Fox News wouldn’t
call Florida for Trump- even though he was ahead by a mile. They wouldn’t
call Ohio- even though Trump was ahead by a mile, They wouldn’t call Texas-
even though Trump was ahead by a mile. I sat there screaming at my television.
More strange calls. Fox News had called Virginia for
Biden at the start of the night- with Trump well ahead in Virginia. Trump
would remain ahead in Virginia for three long hours after Fox awarded the
electoral votes to Biden. Why would they do that? What was the rush? It made
no sense.
Biden was awarded Virginia with Trump ahead.
But Trump was ahead by a mile in Florida, Ohio and Texas, yet Fox News refused
to award him the electoral votes. I knew at that moment,
something was wrong. Something smelled fishy. Something was rotten in the DC
Swamp.
Bettors witnessed Trump dominating. He clearly won not
only those key states of Florida, Ohio and Texas, but Trump also enjoyed large
leads in the entire Midwest- Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin and Iowa. It was
all but over. Trump had an electoral landslide. Hence the massive 8 to 1 odds
in favor of Trump.
And then it happened. It was the most bizarre call in
Election Night history. Fox News called Arizona for Biden. Why? It wasn’t even
close to over. There was no reason on earth to make that call. Arizona is
STILL not over 8 days later. CNN still hasn’t awarded Arizona. ABC
pulled it back from Biden only 24 hours ago.
Why would Fox News be in such a rush to call Arizona for
Biden? At that moment, Trump’s odds crashed almost instantly from 8 to 1,
back down to 2 to 1. That drop set off alarm bells. My friend who is one of
the biggest bookmakers in the country called me to say, “Wayne, something is wrong.
I’ve never seen a drop like that, let alone a drop that fast. How can Trump
go from 8 to 1, to 2 to 1. Someone knows something. We’ve got a problem.”
It was as if someone had decided in advance to give
Arizona to Biden- whether he won it, or not. It was as if the secret code was
known to only a few billionaire gamblers, “Fox News awards Arizona to Biden.”
Six magic words. Someone was ready for that call. Someone waited until Trump
was a prohibitive 8 to 1 favorite, then knew to bet millions of dollars on
Biden at the longest odds of the night. Someone knew the fix was in. Someone
made a fortune.
There’s more to the story. First, by awarding both
Virginia and Arizona to Biden way too early in the evening and also going super
slow awarding states to Trump where he led by a mile, Fox News made sure
Biden had the electoral lead all night. That’s another big part of the
story.
Just like the fake pollsters suppressed Trump voters for
months in advance of the election with polls falsely showing Trump losing by a
landslide, fake “news desk” employees sure appeared to be suppressing Trump
votes on Election Night. And also creating an air of invincibility for Biden.
If Biden led in every poll before the election, and led all night in electoral
votes, then it wouldn’t look like a fix was in, when Biden suddenly wound up
the winner the morning after. Right?
One more piece of the puzzle. From almost the moment that
secret code “Fox News awards Arizona to Biden” was spoken, three key Midwest
battleground states with Democrat Governors all decided to stop counting votes
for the night, with Trump way ahead. Why? Why all three, at the same time?
Like they were coordinated in advance. Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania all
mysteriously quit counting around midnight.
To add to the idea of a fix, these states merely claimed
they were stopping counting for the night. After TV cameras and Republican poll
watchers were all sent home, these Democrat states all resumed counting,
suddenly finding all the ballots they needed to overcome large Trump leads.
I actually took screen shots before I went to bed. Trump
was winning Michigan by over 300,000 votes when they stopped counting. He was
up in Wisconsin by over 100,000. In Pennsylvania he was up almost 700,000
votes. But in the wee hours of the morning I took a new screenshot. Suddenly
Biden was up by 9,000 in Wisconsin and 30,000 in Michigan. How’d that happen? I
thought they stopped counting?
It all started with that bizarre Arizona call
by Fox News.
Folks, someone knew. The fix was in. A few key people
made millions betting on this election. They knew the exact minute to jump in. They
knew exactly when a Trump landslide would turn to a Biden victory, with the
help of a fake TV network call and fake ballots.
They knew Arizona was going to be called way too early.
They knew that fake Arizona call would trigger vote counting to stop and
massive ballot fraud to begin.
I don’t know what the Supreme Court will decide. But
bettors all over the world know in our guts exactly what happened. The fix was
in, no different than that famous NY Giants-Philadelphia Eagle fix in 1978 at
the Meadowlands.
Trump was robbed. This election was stolen.
