Risk-takers, US election & the power of luck in politics – with Nate Silver

Labor Day is a critical mile-marker on the road to the general election. Now just two months away, pollsters are busy processing data and making predictions, but nobody really knows whether it will be Donald Trump or Kamala Harris in the White House. Nate Silver is one of America’s most well-respected pollsters. The former poker player set up FiveThirtyEight, a polling company and now writes The Silver Bullet Substack. Nate Silver’s latest book On the Edge: the Art of Risking Everything takes a look at two mindsets: the River and the Village. 

Nate joins Freddy Gray on the Americano show to discuss probability in sport and politics, how luck is often undervalued in politics, whether VP picks are an key decision in general elections and why JD Vance may be a bad choice for Trump.