Eric Trump made huge wager that Donald Trump will get 320 electoral votes, much more than what poll team expected
Eric Trump was among the people who believed Donald Trump would never lose to the 2020 election, and so strong was his belief that he bet the president would gain at least 320 electoral college votes. The second son of Trump made the wager while flying home on Air Force One from the family's final campaign in Michigan. Eventually, Trump would go on to earn only 232 votes in comparison to Joe Biden's 306 — nearly 100 votes short.
As per a New York Times report, an adviser from polling and analytics said: "We're just trying to get to 270." Based on the number of people who attended his rallies, Trump's inner circle firmly believed there would be a massive lead.
There was no news as to how much the younger Trump had bet or whether he ponied up, but the report added that Trump and his entourage "fell into enraged disbelief as his lead inexorably dissipated, even in formerly red states like Arizona, which Fox called for Mr. Biden at 11:20 in what the president took as a stinging betrayal. Eric Trump goaded him on — a dynamic that would play out in the weeks to come. There would be no early victory speech that evening."
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The 37-year-old made headlines when he promoted multiple conspiracy theories following his father's loss to Biden. He labeled the election result as a fraud. He serves as the trustee and the executive VP of The Trump Organization' and runs it alongside his brother, Donald Jr.
Last May, Eric Trump garnered major flak when he spoke on Fox News that stay-at-home orders to prevent the spread of Covid-19 was a Democrat ploy and that Biden's campaign intended to prevent his father's re-election by not allowing him to arrange and conduct campaigns. According to Axios, he said: "Coronavirus will magically all of a sudden go away and disappear and everybody will be able to reopen."
In related news, since Trump and Melania's exit from the White House, Ivanka Trump, Tiffany Trump, and Donald Trump Jr have all garnered thousands of new followers. According to Social Blade, between January 20, 2021, the day of President Biden's inauguration, and January 26, 2021, Donald Trump Jr gained more than 46,100 followers, Ivanka Trump gained more than 27,100 followers and Tiffany Trump gained over 5,100.
While all of them gained a decent number of followers, only Eric Trump's account was reported to lose supporters. According to statistics from the social media tracking firm Social Blade, Eric's follower count had dropped for 16 consecutive days, a downward trajectory in which he lost more than 302,500 followers between January 7, 2021, a day after the riots, and January 22, 2021.