In case you are a registered voter, there’s a superb probability that you’re besieged every 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 nearly 3 million donors. Former President Donald Trump‘s staff says he raised $130 million over the identical interval and had $327 million going into August.
That is some huge cash coming in from quite a lot of sources. And a kind of sources is billionaires. Bloomberg’s Kristine Owram and Invoice Allison used Federal Election Commission information as of August to search 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 information however have endorsed one of many candidates.”
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Their analysis discovered that Trump has gotten at the least $24.4 million from 13 members of the Billionaires Index and Harris has acquired $12.8 million from 20 folks. Listed below are a number of the extra high-profile billionaire backers. Go to Bloomberg to see the entire list.
Trump’s Billionaire Backers
Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, SpaceX and X
- Web Price: $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 Dwelling 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
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 Price: $177.9 billion
Invoice Gates, Co-founder of Microsoft
- Web Price: $156.9 billion
Warren Buffett, Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway
- Web Price: $144.9 billion
Peter Thiel, Founding accomplice of Founders Fund
Rupert Murdoch, Former chairman of Information Corp.