--- title: Odds on Donald Trump Presidency Are 14-1, British Bookmaker Says description: Donald Trump's odds of becoming president have increased significantly since this British bookmaker first started taking bets. canonical: https://time.com/3987562/odds-donald-trump-president/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-08-06T16:57:15.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T09:58:18.949Z article:section: Business og:title: Here Are the Odds that Trump Will Actually Become President og:description: People are betting on The Donald. og:url: https://time.com/3987562/odds-donald-trump-president/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt71180b9b6ec507cc/69885e34e53abaaf164def7b/ap_644815003844.jpg?branch=production&width=1920&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Donald Trump og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Here Are the Odds that Trump Will Actually Become President twitter:description: People are betting on The Donald. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt71180b9b6ec507cc/69885e34e53abaaf164def7b/ap_644815003844.jpg?branch=production&width=1920&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Here Are the Odds that Donald Trump Will Actually Become President ## Video: Know Right Now: Ten Candidates Chosen For Republican Presidential Debate [Watch (HLS stream): Know Right Now: Ten Candidates Chosen For Republican Presidential Debate](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/36NSTNo2.m3u8) (1:01)  _Published 2015-08-04. Donald Trump, Jeb Bush, Scott Walker, Ben Carson, and Mike Huckabee, will participate in the first official debate. Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Rand Paul, Chris Christie, and John Kasich will also participate._ by [Michal Addady / Fortune](/author/fortune/) ## Michal Addady / Fortune Aug 6, 2015 4:57 PM CUT  Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump. Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump.Ross D. Franklin—AP by [Michal Addady / Fortune](/author/fortune/) ## Michal Addady / Fortune Aug 6, 2015 4:57 PM CUT [14-1](http://www.marketwatch.com/story/this-man-is-betting-thousands-on-trump-to-win-2015-08-05?mod=mw%5Fshare%5Ftwitter "undefined") — those are the odds that Donald Trump will win the presidency, according to William Hill, leading British bookmaker. One client in particular is rooting for The Donald to win with White House in 2016\. He has placed 17 separate bets and, if Trump becomes president and the client wins each individual wager, he stands to win almost $70,000. Those 14-1 odds are pretty surprising, considering how controversial this candidate is. William Hill executives are surprised as well; they had him as a long shot with 150-1 odds when they first started taking bets. It seems almost every time the real estate tycoon opens his mouth, he has something [outrageous](http://fortune.com/video/2015/07/24/outrageous-quotes-by-donald-trump/ "undefined") to say. Despite his severe case of foot-in-mouth disease, a Trump presidency seems more realistic everyday as he continues to [crush his GOP rivals](http://fortune.com/2015/07/29/trump-keeps-leading-in-polls/ "undefined") in the polls. He hasn’t locked in the win quite yet, according to William Hill’s reports of the other candidates’ odds. [Hillary Clinton](http://fortune.com/2015/04/12/hillary-clinton-presidental-annoucement/ "undefined") is the favorite, with even odds. [Jeb Bush](http://fortune.com/2015/07/16/goldman-sachs-bankers-jeb-bush-donations/ "undefined") stands at 7-2, [Marco Rubio](http://fortune.com/2015/07/29/marco-rubio-planned-parenthood/ "undefined") at 7-1, [Scott Walker](http://fortune.com/2015/08/04/scott-walker-debt/ "undefined") at 10-1, and [Bernie Sanders](http://fortune.com/2015/04/29/clinton-bernie-sanders/ "undefined") is just ahead of Trump with 12-1. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3987562/odds-donald-trump-president/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3987562/odds-donald-trump-president/"},"headline":"Here Are the Odds that Donald Trump Will Actually Become President","datePublished":"2015-08-06T16:57:15.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T09:58:18.949Z","description":"People are betting on The Donald","url":"https://time.com/3987562/odds-donald-trump-president/","keywords":["Donald Trump","2016","Election","gambling","campaign","presidency","betting","pubdesk","trump","presidential candidates"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt71180b9b6ec507cc/69885e34e53abaaf164def7b/ap_644815003844.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Michal Addady / Fortune"}],"articleSection":"Business","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt71180b9b6ec507cc/69885e34e53abaaf164def7b/ap_644815003844.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Donald Trump","caption":"Donald Trump","creditText":"Ross D. 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