Has anyone told Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders that they’re supporting the preferred candidate of billionaires? Isn’t that supposed to be a bad thing? Isn’t that what we’ve been told over and over again?
Bloomberg reports:
Hillary Clinton Is Outraising Trump 20-to-1 Among Billionaires
Hillary gets the vote from America’s richest citizens. Or at least she’s getting their cash.
Former Secretary of State and Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has collected $21.1 million for her campaign and its supporting political action committees from 17 U.S. donors on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Republican Donald Trump has received $1.02 million from 12 members of the group.
While the role the wealthiest play in American politics has come under increased scrutiny with growing attention to income inequality fueling the rise of populist candidates, contributions from U.S. billionaires on the Bloomberg index amount to 3 percent of the $708 million raised by the two candidates, as of the latest Federal Election Commission filings.
Hedge fund billionaire George Soros is the biggest spender among donors on the index, giving almost $11.9 million to Clinton’s cause. A Hungarian immigrant to the U.S., Soros is the 17th-richest person in the country with $24.7 billion, according to the index. The co-founder of hedge fund Renaissance Technologies — and former NSA codebreaker — James Simons, is the second-biggest spender, giving $7 million to Clinton.
If all these billionaires were supporting Trump it would be proof that he’s an out of touch rich person.
Since they’re backing Hillary, we hear nothing but crickets.
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