Moo Deng predicts US presidential election winner — by choosing which cake to eat

Moo Deng, the babe pygmy hippopotamus who has unexpectedly recovered fame this year, has revealed which statesmanlike campaigner she thinks volition triumph the 2024 US election.

The cute hippo made her prediction successful her enclosure astatine the Khao Kheow Open Zoo successful Chonburi, Thailand — with the assistance of zookeepers and 2 dishes of nutrient to take from.

In a video recorded arsenic Americans went to the polls, Moo Deng was fixed 2 piles of effect made to look similar cake, 1 with the sanction of Republican campaigner Donald Trump connected it and the different with the Democrats’ Kamala Harris.

So who did Moo Deng pick? She chose the effect barroom that spelt retired Mr Trump.

The larger hippo successful her pen chose otherwise though, and tucked into the watermelon featuring Ms Harris’s name.

Moo Deng became an net sensation after zookeeper Atthapon Nundee posted videos of her bathing and playfully biting, earlier making herself truthful bushed with her shenanigans that she fell asleep.

Moo Deng means “bouncy pork” successful Thai and refers to a benignant of meatball. Born to parents Jonah and Tony connected July 10, Moo Deng besides has 2 half-sisters named aft pork dishes, Moo Tun and Moo Wan, meaning stewed and saccharine pork, respectively.

Pygmy hippos are a tiny taxon of hippopotamidae, autochthonal to the forests and swamps of West Africa.

Moo Deng’s endorsement of Mr Trump came arsenic nationalist canvass results showed the 2 candidates were neck-and-neck successful the contention for the White House. This is particularly truthful successful the important plaything states successful the election.

More than 75 cardinal aboriginal votes were estimated to person been formed earlier predetermination time connected Tuesday.

On Monday, Vice President Ms Harris concluded her run successful Pennsylvania, a pivotal battleground state. She held a star-studded rally at the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the tract of a celebrated country from Rocky.

Backed by stars specified arsenic Lady Gaga and Oprah Winfrey, Ms Harris called herself the underdog acceptable to “climb to victory” successful what she predicted would beryllium 1 of the closest elections successful US history.

“The momentum is connected our side,” she told a assemblage that chanted back: “We volition win.”

Meanwhile, Mr Trump finished a four-rally blitz of plaything states with an impassioned code successful Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Calling Ms Harris a “radical near lunatic”, helium told supporters helium would triumph the election. “This volition beryllium the azygous top victory, politically speaking, successful the past of our country,” helium said.