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President Biden raised millions of dollars from employees at Silicon Valley technology firms in his race to win the election, with donations from staffers at Google, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, and Apple outpacing other corporate donors.
The numbers, according to an analysis of newly released campaign finance reports, show how Big Tech’s rank and file backed Biden overwhelmingly.
The president raised about $15 million from employees at these firms, making them the five largest aggregate corporate donors to Biden’s campaign and joint fundraising committee, records show. Corporations cannot give directly to campaigns, but their employees can, providing a window into the political leanings of their staff.
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Sheldon Adelson’s super PAC spending spree shaped GOP politics
Adelson, who died Monday, combined with his wife to donate more to Republicans than multiple other megadonors combined.
Casino magnate and Republican mega donor Sheldon Adelson is recognized by President Donald Trump during a Nov. 16, 2018 Medal of Freedom ceremony in the East Room of the White House. | Andrew Harnik/AP Photo
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There are Republican megadonors, and then there was Sheldon Adelson.
The casino magnate, who died Monday at 87, and his wife Miriam together accounted for an enormous share of GOP political spending over the last decade, making him a Republican kingmaker. Even in a political world now over-stuffed with million-dollar donors, their pull was clear from the pilgrimages presidential candidates made to his Venetian resort in Las Vegas, meeting in his office just off the casino floor. Senior Republican operatives at GOP outside groups strategized around their nine-figure checks
CHICAGO: Billionaire Sheldon Adelson, who died on Monday aged 87, was unapologetic in denouncing the Palestinians as “a made-up nation,” and used his fortune to augment that message via his media empire and campaign donations to influence US elections.
The publisher of Israel’s largest newspaper Israel Hayom, he was the biggest financial contributor to US President Donald Trump’s campaign, and donated millions more to Congressional and Senate candidates.
“Sheldon Adelson was an American patriot, and a staunch defender of Israel and the Jewish people. His loss is a tremendous one for America, for Israel and for the Jewish people,” Jason Greenblatt, one of Trump’s initial key advisers on the Middle East, told Arab News.