Why tech billionaires are backing Trump
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The Times
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🗓️ 2 September 2024
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Elon Musk and other tech billionaires in Democrat-leaning Silicon Valley are backing Donald Trump in 2024. What’s driving this shift, and what could it mean for the presidential race?
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| 0:00.0 | BP is working to bring more lower carbon energy to the UK, like designing two hydrogen plants, |
| 0:06.2 | and we're keeping oil and gas flowing from the North Sea. It's and not all. That's how BP is backing Britain. |
| 0:13.0 | While today we're mostly in oil and gas we increased the proportion of our |
| 0:16.8 | global annual investment that went into our lower carbon and other |
| 0:19.8 | transition businesses from around 3% in 2019 to around 23% in 2023. |
| 0:26.4 | VP.com slash and not all. |
| 0:29.2 | Good dinner party? Fun but you definitely blew our budget. |
| 0:34.0 | Budgets are meant to budge. |
| 0:36.0 | You got everyone a gift, but it wasn't anyone's birthday. |
| 0:39.0 | Says the person who gave a coupon as a tip last week. |
| 0:43.0 | Have you bought a chandelier for one bedroom flat? |
| 0:46.0 | At least I didn't sublet the couch. |
| 0:49.0 | It's extra income and keep it down. |
| 0:51.0 | Joe is sleeping. |
| 0:52.0 | Studies show our relationship with money is for and keep it down, Joe is sleeping. |
| 0:53.0 | Studies show our relationship with money is formed from age seven. |
| 0:56.0 | So for help tackling your finances, search Barclays Make Money Work for you. From The Times and Sunday Times, this is the story. I'm Luke Jones. |
| 1:08.0 | In the United States in sunny California, 80 kilometers south of San Francisco, you'll find Silicon Valley, |
| 1:20.0 | home to Apple, Google, Meta, and hundreds of other big tech to small tech startups. |
| 1:26.7 | It attracts people with radical ideas to work on some of the most lucrative frontiers, artificial intelligence, social media, |
| 1:35.4 | crypto, and it's predominantly liberal. |
| 1:39.0 | California is solidly Democrat in state and national elections, and it leans left on issues like climate |
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