What Billionaires See in Donald Trump

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🗓️ 19 October 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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The Washington Roundtable discusses the ultra-rich figures, such as Elon Musk, who are donating staggeringly large sums of money to Donald Trump’s campaign. Susan B. Glasser’s recent piece examines what these prominent donors may expect to get in return for their support.“You’ve now got oligarchs who have a sense of impunity,” Jane Mayer says. “There are no limits to how much they can give and how much power they can get.” Plus, how Trump’s fund-raising figures compare to those of Vice-President Kamala Harris, who has raised one billion dollars since launching her Presidential campaign..

This week’s reading:

“How Republican Billionaires Learned to Love Trump Again,” by Susan B. Glasser
“Can the Women of the Philadelphia Suburbs Save the Democrats Again?” by Eliza Griswold
“What the Closeness of This Election Suggests About the Future of American Politics,” by Isaac Chotiner
“What the Polls Really Say About Black Men’s Support for Kamala Harris,” by Jelani Cobb

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0:00.0	Did you see that Obama and her husband are going to be campaigning with Harris pretty soon?
0:07.0	I did not see that. I did see that. I think Michelle's doing some of her own things out there, right?
0:12.0	She's really odd on the hustings.
0:13.7	Well, this is the thing,
0:15.0	I mean, this is one thing that I came across
0:16.4	when I was doing the Harris profile
0:18.2	is that she went all in on Harris.
0:21.1	And this is a very, in some ways ways very smart thing that Harris did when she
0:24.6	was in the first years of the vice presidency was that she became very close
0:29.7	with Michelle. Smart move, definitely.
0:34.0	Very smart.
0:35.0	Okay, what I noticed was that when, I don't know if you guys saw Harris in Wisconsin, she had a move that seemed
0:42.4	very vintage and in fact almost better than Obama's way of dealing with the crowd.
0:47.7	I don't know if you saw this.
0:49.1	So there was a heckler.
0:50.1	I love this.
0:51.3	And she just said, oh you guys are at the wrong rally.
0:58.7	No, I think you meant to go to the smaller one down the street.
1:03.0	And it was like. you meant to go to the smaller one down the street.
1:07.0	And it was like snap, you know, the very open. The crowd went completely, they loved it.
1:09.0	When she saw that it was working, I was just watching her face,
1:12.0	and then she was like, oh yeah, this is a good one.
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