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Who Are the Billionaires Backing Trump or Harris?

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In case you are a registered voter, there’s a excellent likelihood that you’re besieged each day by texts and emails from marketing campaign fundraisers begging you for cash. As annoying as it’s, it really works. Within the first full month of her candidacy, Vice President Kamala Harris’s marketing campaign introduced it raised $361 million from practically 3 million donors. Former President Donald Trump’s workforce says he raised $130 million over the identical interval and had $327 million going into August.

That is some huge cash coming in from a whole lot of sources. And a type of sources is billionaires. Bloomberg’s Kristine Owram and Invoice Allison used Federal Election Fee knowledge as of August to seek out members of the Bloomberg Billionaires Index who’ve donated to the Harris or Trump campaigns. In addition they included some billionaires like Elon Musk and Invoice Ackman who “do not present up within the FEC knowledge however have endorsed one of many candidates.”

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Their analysis discovered that Trump has gotten a minimum of $24.4 million from 13 members of the Billionaires Index and Harris has obtained $12.8 million from 20 folks. Listed below are a number of the extra high-profile billionaire backers. Go to Bloomberg to see your complete listing.

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Trump’s Billionaire Backers

Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, SpaceX and X

  • Web Value: $236.8 billion

Stephen Schwarzman, Chairman of Blackstone

Miriam Adelson, Majority shareholder of Las Vegas Sands

Woody Johnson, Proprietor of the New York Jets

Joe Ricketts, Founding father of TD Ameritrade

Bernie Marcus, Co-founder of House Depot

Harris’s Billionaire Backers

Eric Schmidt, Former CEO of Alphabet

Christy Walton, Daughter-in-law of Walmart founder Sam Walton

Melinda French Gates, Former co-chair of Invoice & Melinda Gates Basis

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Steven Spielberg, Filmmaker

Mark Cuban, Co-owner of the Dallas Mavericks

Joe Gebbia, Co-founder of Airbnb

Reed Hastings, Co-founder of Netflix

Undeclared

As of but, Bloomberg notes that these big-name billionaires have but to formally endorse or donate to a candidate:

Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta Platforms

  • Web Value: $177.9 billion

Invoice Gates, Co-founder of Microsoft

  • Web Value: $156.9 billion

Warren Buffett, Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway

  • Web Value: $144.9 billion

Peter Thiel, Founding companion of Founders Fund

Rupert Murdoch, Former chairman of Information Corp.

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