Is Trump's chances in the midterm elections slim? ????
—I don't know, but he definitely has more money than his opponents! He raised a total of $429 million, and currently $304 million is sitting on his Super PAC, tens of millions more than the Democratic camp!
The AI and crypto industries also accounted for a significant portion of this round of donations:
Elon Musk: $5 million
OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman and his wife Anna: $25 million
SIG co-founder Jeff Yass: $16 million
Crypto.com: $30 million
Blockchain.com: $5 million
A16Z founder Ben Horowitz: $3 million
A16Z founder Marc Andreessen: $3 million
Funds from the energy, healthcare, and finance sectors are also heavily betting on this:
Extremity Care (a medical company) and its affiliates: $10 million
RAI Services (a tobacco company): $3 million
Energy entrepreneur Kelcy Warren: $12.5 million; private equity investor Konstantin Sokolov: $11 million; banker Julio Herrera Velutini and his daughter: $3.5 million.
Jeffrey Sprecher, CEO of NYSE parent company ICE: $2.5 million; Lynsi Snyder-Ellingson, heiress to a food business: $2 million; William E. Ford, venture capitalist: $1.25 million.
NFL Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones: $1 million
Chevron Board Member John Hess: $1 million
John Hess's wife, Susan Hess: $1 million; investor Warren Stephens: $1 million; entrepreneur Jared Isaacman: $1 million.
