Nearly 90 business leaders have signed an open letter endorsing Kamala Harris.
As Breitbart reported, this letter underscores an “ongoing political realignment” that’s been taking place since 2016.
“Before former President Donald Trump won the presidency, the Republican Party appeared to be the party of big-business and corporate interests,” noted Breitbart.
Now the Democrat party is taking up that mantle in the banner of globalism and ‘democracy,’ a reformation of political identities dating back to Franklin D. Roosevelt and beyond.”
The letter says that electing Kamala Harris is “the best way to support the continued strength, security, and reliability of our democracy and economy.”
“With Kamala Harris in the White House, the business community can be confident that it will have a President who wants American industries to thrive. As a partner to President Biden, Vice President Harris has a strong record of advancing actions to spur business investment in the United States and ensure American businesses can compete and win in the global market. She will continue to advance fair and predictable policies that support the rule of law, stability, and a sound business environment, and she will strive to give every American the opportunity to pursue the American dream.”
Among the signatories are James Murdoch, former CEO of 21st Century Fox and an heir to the Murdoch family empire; philanthropist Lynn Forester de Rothschild; Ted Leonsis, owner of the NBA’s Washington Wizards; Jeffrey Katzenberg, founder and managing partner of Wndr and former chairman of Walt Disney Studios; philanthropist Laurene Powell Jobs; Facebook cofounder Dustin Moskovitz; NBA Hall of Famer and billionaire Magic Johnson; entrepreneur Mark Cuban; and former LinkedIn CEO Reid Hoffman.
The presence of many of the names on the list will be no surprise.
Reid Hoffman, for example, has been an extremely vocal opponent of Donald Trump since 2016. Together with his advisor Dmitri Mehlhorn they founded Investing In US, a for-profit investment fund that has invested tens of millions of dollars in advocacy organizations, voter-outreach groups, media outlets and strategy groups that focus on opposing Donald Trump and the Republican Party.
In the immediate aftermath of the attempt on Trump’s life in July, Hoffman was forced to apologize for remarks he made days before the attempted assassination, when he said that he wished he had made Trump “an actual martyr.” He said on Twitter than he had been referring to “accountability to the rule of law” and that he was “horrified and saddened” by Saturday’s events.
Hoffman’s advisor Dmitri Melhorn was also forced to apologize after an unhinged email he sent to journalists was published by Semafor.
The email was sent to a number of journalists not long after the attack on former president Trump. Mehlhorn wrote that one “possibility — which feels horrific and alien and absurd in America, but is quite common globally — is that this ‘shooting’ was encouraged and maybe even staged so Trump could get the photos and benefit from the backlash. This is a classic Russian tactic, such as when Putin killed 300 civilians in 1999 and blamed it on terrorists to ride the backlash to winning power. Others who have embraced this tactic of committing raw evil and then benefitting from the backlash include Hamas on October 7. If any Trump officials encouraged or knew of this attack, that is morally horrific, and Republicans of decency must demand that Trump step down as unfit.”