US Election 2024: Silicon Valley turns towards Trump

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

66% : Trump has also pledged to create a robust manufacturing industry in Near Earth Orbit, sending astronauts back to the moon, and onward to Mars, enhancing partnerships with the rapidly expanding commercial space sector to "revolutionise our ability to access, live in, and develop assets in Space.
52% : Though the evening included a $300,000 ticket tier for donors not too shy for a photo opportunity with the candidate, Sacks said on the All-In weekly podcast: "I know there's going to be a lot of people who support Trump, but they don't want to admit it."Vice Presidential candidate, JD Vance's Senate seat and potential path to the White House from US marine, venture capitalist and successful memoirist, was said to be funded and advanced by Silicon Valley veteran investor, Peter Thiel, whose brand name successes include PayPal, Palantir and Founders Fund.
52% : Another notable Silicon Valley Trump supporter includes US entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy who ran as a Republican nominee for President in 2023 and has since endorsed Trump and acted as his political surrogate on the campaign trail.
52% : "Trump has proposed a baseline 10-20% global import tariff and 60% or higher tariff on Chinese imports.
52% : Trump has resonated with the libertarian streak running through the heart of Silicon Valley's left leaning culture, homing in on the most libertarian of all its global exports: cryptocurrency.
51% : "The hegemonic stability theory of globalisation - global stability most recently ensured through US hegemony - is unlikely to return under a Trump presidency advocating a return to trade nationalism, and according to Granville, would result in a fragmented world.
47% : The new cabal of Trump supporters, with Elon Musk at the helm - reportedly Trump's pick for a Washington efficiency tsar - includes venture capitalists Chamath Palihapitiya and David Sacks who held a high-profile Bay Area fundraiser for Trump, in June, with tickets reportedly selling for $50,000 a seat.
42% : The first Trump presidency was a turning point for free trade and marked the beginning of a new protectionist era.
38% : Designed to create a new financial world order free from the constraints of centralised government control, Trump has publicly pledged to end the Democrat's efforts to crackdown on cryptocurrencies with increased regulation, as well as opposing plans for the creation of central bank digital currencies - digital money controlled by government.
35% : However, the trajectory of the trade war will be drastically different depending on whether Trump or Harris wins," says Pinto.
30% : "If Musk was the mark, then Trump hit the target hard.

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