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Here’s how America’s billionaires and their employees are approaching the 2024 elections
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Here’s how America’s billionaires and their employees are approaching the 2024 elections

As the race for the White House unfolded, billionaires from Silicon Valley to Wall Street supported both candidates with donations, while some publicly supported neither camp. Here’s how some of the biggest names — and their employees — approached this election.

A growing list of billionaires have supported Kamala Harris or Donald Trump. Photos: Reuters
A growing list of billionaires have supported Kamala Harris or Donald Trump. Photos: Reuters

Elon Musk

The CEO of Tesla and SpaceX has donated more than $120 million to support Trump. Musk one of the largest donors to the Republican Party.

He donated $119 million to support Trump’s campaign through America PAC, a political action group supporting the Republican candidate. Another conservative super PAC, or political action committee, the Sentinel Action Fund, also reported receiving $2.3 million from Musk.

However, employees of Musk-owned companies contributed far more to Harris’ campaign than to Trump’s, according to the Washington-based nonpartisan, nonprofit group OpenSecrets.

Stephen Schwarzman

The founder of global private equity firm Blackstone Group supported Trump in this election and said his support was a “vote for change.”