Google and Microsoft employees donate millions of dollars to Kamala Harris' campaign, report finds
The Democratic candidate has been outperforming Donald Trump in fundraising. In August alone, she raised four times more than her rival.
Kamala Harris raised four times as much as Donald Trump in August/ Mandel Ngan
Kamala Harris is the favorite of employees and executives at big tech companies. A report revealed that those working for Google and Microsoft donated nearly $2 million to the Democratic candidate. Elon Musk was among the first to react to the report and said the aforementioned companies "can't help but introduce bias."
Quiver Quantitative published the original report. According to its own website, it is a "'FinTech' founded by two college students in February 2020, with the goal of bridging this information gap between Wall Street and non-professional investors."
According to their data, clarifying first that these are donations made to major candidate campaign committees by executives and employees, not by the companies themselves, Google and Microsoft are the companies with the most donations to the Harris campaign.
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— Quiver Quantitative (@QuiverQuant) September 3, 2024
Here are the companies who have given the most to Kamala Harris and Donald Trump's campaigns.
Google, $GOOGL, executives and employees have donated the most so far. pic.twitter.com/F612ptgIVj
Indeed, Google employees contributed $1.4 million, and Microsoft employees contributed $743,000. Behind them are Brown & Brown ($324,000), Johnson & Johnson ($239,000), Apple ($225,000), Oracle ($218,000), Wells Fargo ($169,000) and Nvidia ($169,000), among many others.
Additionally, employees of companies such as Amazon, Netflix, JP Morgan, Disney, Accenture and Pfizer also donated to Harris' campaign.
On the other side, Trump received the most money from employees and executives of American Airlines ($134,000) and Walmart ($83,000).
The ranking was followed by Lockheed Martin ($69,000), United Airlines ($67,000), FedEx ($61,000), Wells Fargo ($59,000), Johnson & Johnson ($57,000), Brown & Brown ($56,000), Southwest Airlines ($55,000) and Northrop Grumman ($52,000).
"They can't help but introduce bias"
Elon Musk, owner of X and founder of Tesla, was among the first to react to Quiver Quantitative's report.
"Google & Microsoft very disproportionately donate to the Democratic Party. Between them, they control close to 100% of web browsers and search. Even with the best of intentions, they can’t help but introduce bias," he expressed on his own social network.
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