JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon on Wednesday urged Democrats to again GOP presidential hopeful Nikki Haley as a substitute for frontrunner Donald Trump — the newest Wall Road backing for Haley which has drawn criticism from her main rivals.
“If you’re a very liberal Democrat, I urge you to help Nikki Haley, too. Give them a choice on the Republican side that might be better than Trump,” Dimon said on the 2023 DealBook Summit, in accordance with Politico.
Haley has been gaining important floor within the GOP main polls in current weeks, though she and others stay effectively behind former President Trump. She has leapfrogged DeSantis for second place in New Hampshire and in her house state, which holds the primary southern contest.
And he or she’s drawn even with DeSantis in a number of the newest polls in Iowa, whose caucuses kick off the GOP nominating calendar on Jan. 15.
Former ambassador to the United Nations and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, a 2024 Republican presidential candidate, speaks at a city corridor in Derry, New Hampshire, on Nov. 28, 2023 (Fox Information – Paul Steinhauser)
Haley has been boosted by some main backing in current weeks along with the assist from Dimon. On Wednesday she scored the endorsement of People for Prosperity Motion, the political wing of the influential and deep-pocketed fiscally conservative community based by the billionaire Koch Brothers.
AFP Motion has pledged to spend tens of thousands and thousands of {dollars} and mobilize its formidable grassroots operation to assist push the Republican Get together previous Trump.
Earlier this month, the Wall Road Journal reported how main Wall Road backers are lining as much as assist her, with the outlet reporting that admirers embrace the CEO of Morgan Stanley and BlackRock’s Larry Fink.
“If she passes DeSantis, she’s the backup,” one financier instructed the outlet, arguing that with Trump’s courtroom circumstances looming “it’s not completely crazy that she could ultimately win.”
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However the assist might be a double-edged sword for Haley in a main ambiance that’s extra skeptical of huge enterprise than in previous primaries, together with her rivals eager to make use of the endorsements from Wall Road and elsewhere as a strategy to assault her conservative credentials.
“Wondering why Wall Street execs, Blackrock, and the Koch Network are all supporting Nikki Haley?” the “DeSantis War Room” posted on X, previously often known as Twitter, linking to a video highlighting what it offered as liberal positions on immigration, gasoline taxes and requires restrictions on social media.
“Jamie Dimon Urges Even Liberals to Back Nikki ‘Birdbrain’ Haley as Alternative to Trump,” Staff Trump mentioned on X.
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In the meantime, Dimon additionally addressed the chance that Trump might be president, when requested if he’d assist “anything but Trump.”
“I would never say. He might be the president, I have to live with that too,” he mentioned.
