He put his money where his mouth is…
Though in this case, the role of “money” is actually being played by a tin of gourmet crickets.
Polling expert Sam Wang, the founder of the Princeton Election Consortium, kept his promise to eat bugs live on air if Donald Trump won more than 240 electoral votes.
Of course, as we all know, the Republican nominee won an awful lot more than that. In fact, he won 290 in total as he won a tight presidential race in which both he and Hillary Clinton won between 47% and 48% of the popular vote.
"It's a little nutty": Poll expert @SamWangPhD eats a bug live on air after being wrong about Trump win. https://t.co/Eur6gkErFI
— CNN (@CNN) November 12, 2016
Wang tried to point out that the time being devoted to him eating a bug could have been spent discussing Supreme Court nominations — but that did nothing to dissuade the CNN host.
“A lot of people were wrong, but nobody else made the promise I did,” Wang said. We think he has probably learned his lesson.
In Wang’s defence, a lot of very unlikely things had shorter odds of happening than Trump taking the presidency – he was as long as 150/1 to get elected when he announced in 2015 that he would be entering the race for the Republican candidacy.
Few could have predicted it – well, aside from one Simpsons writer.
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