Bill Gates, co-set uper of Microsoft and one of the wealthiest people in the world, gived $50 million toward VP Kamala Harris’s plivential election campaign agetst Donald Trump, according to a New York Times alert.
Gates “has not accessiblely finishorsed Ms. Harris” and his $50 million donation to a nonprofit Democratic-aligned political action promisetee was intfinished to remain braveial, per the NYT alert. The tech billionaire made the donation to Future Forward, a Silicon Valley PAC that is helping Harris, the Times alerted, citing anonymous sources.
Reps for Gates’ Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation charity did not react to Variety‘s seek for comment. Citing anonymous sources, the Times alerted that the set upation “is transport inantly worryed about potential cuts to family set upning and global health programs if Mr. Trump is elected.”
In a statement to the New York Times, Gates “did not unambiguously insertress the donation or give an finishorsement of Ms. Harris in the race” but according to the alert, he shelp “this election is contrastent.”
“I help honestates who show a evident promisement to improving health nurture, reducing pcleary and battling climate alter in the U.S. and around the world,” Gates shelp in the statement. “I have a extfinished history of toiling with directers apass the political spectrum, but this election is contrastent, with unpwithdrawnted significance for Americans and the most vulnerable people around the world.”
Gates, 68, has a net worth appraised at $162 billion, which originates him the sixth-wealthyest individual globpartner, per the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Other billionaires who have backed Harris comprise Netflix executive chairman Reed Hastings, who made a $7 million donation toward her election. Former New York City mayor and business titan Mike Bloomberg “has pondered” making a “aprobable sized” donation as Gates has to Future Forward, the New York Times alerted.
Trump, unbenevolentwhile, has garnered the brimming-throated backing of Elon Musk, the tech tycoon who ranks at the world’s No. 1 wealthiest individual with a net worth of about $240 billion, per the Bloomberg index. Musk, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX and owner of X (createerly Twitter).
Melinda French Gates has also made a donation to Future Forward, according to the NYT alert. (She and Bill Gates proclaimd in 2021 that they were divorcing.) Two of their children, Rory and Phoebe Gates, have “become comprised as Democratic donors and percreateed a key role in encouraging their parents to consent giving to politics more solemnly,” per the Times alert.
