Battle of the billionaires: the mega rich spending to swing the US election

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : Trump is particularly dependent on US elites, with about a third of the money raised by the campaign and allied groups coming from billionaires, compared to about 6 per cent of the funds raised by Harris-aligned groups.
57% : Liz and Dick Uihlein, the billionaire founders of the Uline shipping and packing company, have given nearly $70mn to their pro-Trump Restoration Pac and $10mn more to Maga Inc.In a March interview with the FT Liz Uihlein explained why she was supporting Trump despite having supported Ron DeSantis in the Republican primary -- and expressed her hope that the Florida governor would run again in 2028.
52% : The billionaire views government regulations as the obstacles to his vision of the future and appears to believe that if Trump wins, he would gain substantial influence over how the government treats his companies, which already benefit from electric vehicle tax credits and multibillion-dollar federal contracts.
51% : About $127mn, or roughly 6 per cent, of Harris's funding has been donated by billionaires, a far smaller proportion than Trump's.
44% : While other members of the so-called the Pay Pal mafia -- Musk, All-In podcast host David Sacks and venture capitalist Keith Rabois -- have swung behind Trump, LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, 57, has become one of Kamala Harris's top donors.
42% : Bloomberg, the 82-year-old former New York mayor, whose net worth is more than $104bn, according to Forbes, has never been a fan of Trump.
33% : On May 30, the day Trump was convicted of falsifying business records in the New York hush money trial, Bloomberg gave $19mn to the Future Forward super Pac (then supporting Biden).
29% : In 2018, Trump awarded Adelson the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the US's highest civilian honour, for her work combating substance abuse and supporting Jewish causes, including Birthright Israel and Friends of the Israel Defense Forces.

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