Rep. Don Davis Bill Would Fine Candidates at Least $10,000 for Trading on Their Own Races

The notable feature is scope: extending the prohibition to spouses, children and campaign committees closes the indirect routes that make self-dealing hard to police, and a statutory minimum fine shifts enforcement from platform discretion to law. The timing, five weeks after a platform punished a candidate in the same race, suggests prediction markets are now being treated as an election-integrity issue rather than a novelty. Whether Congress takes up a measure aimed at its own candidates, and whether platforms keep policing this without legislation, is the open question.