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Jun 2024
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Swamp Notes: Silicon Valley warms to Tru...

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Few of Silicon Valley’s biggest names supported Donald Trump in 2016 or 2020. Now, some of them are holding multimillion- dollar fundraisers for him. The FT’s US business and politics correspondent, Alex Rogers, and tech correspondent, Hannah Murphy, join this week’s Swamp Notes to explain why Big Tech is abandoning Joe Biden. 


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Donald Trump fundraiser latest sign of support in Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley elite warms to Donald Trump

Biden camp hits out at Elon Musk and ‘sucker’ Donald Trump

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