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    Who Are the Billionaires Backing Trump or Harris?

    By David James,

    1 days ago

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    If you are a registered voter, there is a very good chance that you are besieged on a daily basis by texts and emails from campaign fundraisers begging you for money. As annoying as it is, it works. In the first full month of her candidacy, Vice President Kamala Harris 's campaign announced it raised $361 million from nearly 3 million donors . Former President Donald Trump 's team says he raised $130 million over the same period and had $327 million going into August .

    That's a lot of money coming in from a lot of sources. And one of those sources is billionaires. Bloomberg's Kristine Owram and Bill Allison used Federal Election Commission data as of August to find members of the Bloomberg Billionaires Index who've donated to the Harris or Trump campaigns. They also included some billionaires like Elon Musk and Bill Ackman who "don't show up in the FEC data but have endorsed one of the candidates."

    Related: How Billionaires, Millionaires and Market Analysts Are Reacting to the Trump-Harris Debate

    Their research found that Trump has gotten at least $24.4 million from 13 members of the Billionaires Index and Harris has received $12.8 million from 20 people. Here are some of the more high-profile billionaire backers. Visit Bloomberg to see the entire list .

    Trump's Billionaire Backers

    Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, SpaceX and X

    • Net Worth: $236.8 billion

    Stephen Schwarzman, Chairman of Blackstone

    • Net Worth: $45.8 billion

    Miriam Adelson, Majority shareholder of Las Vegas Sands

    • Net Worth: $32.1 billion

    Woody Johnson, Owner of the New York Jets

    • Net Worth: $8.7 billion

    Joe Ricketts, Founder of TD Ameritrade

    • Net Worth: $7.6 billion

    Bernie Marcus, Co-founder of Home Depot

    • Net Worth: $7.2 billion

    Harris's Billionaire Backers

    Eric Schmidt, Former CEO of Alphabet

    • Net Worth: $30.2 billion

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

    • Net Worth: $15.4 billion

    Melinda French Gates, Former co-chair of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

    • Net Worth: $13.5 billion

    Steven Spielberg, Filmmaker

    • Net Worth: $9.3 billion

    Mark Cuban, Co-owner of the Dallas Mavericks

    • Net Worth: $7.6 billion

    Joe Gebbia, Co-founder of Airbnb

    • Net Worth: $7.4 billion

    Reed Hastings, Co-founder of Netflix

    • Net Worth: $5.9 billion

    Undeclared

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

    Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta Platforms

    • Net Worth: $177.9 billion

    Bill Gates, Co-founder of Microsoft

    • Net Worth: $156.9 billion

    Warren Buffett, Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway

    • Net Worth: $144.9 billion

    Peter Thiel, Founding partner of Founders Fund

    • Net Worth: $11.3 billion

    Rupert Murdoch, Former chairman of News Corp.

    • Net Worth: $10.5 billion
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    SHREDDER.......
    7h ago
    Trump....I'm not a billionaire but I shop like one at TEMU
    Scott Gamerow
    9h ago
    Trump already has lost because Woody Johnson of the Jets is one of his supporters.
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