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Billionaire Tech Investor Peter Thiel To Back Trump As GOP Presidential Candidate (techcrunch.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the influential-leaders dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Billionaire tech investor, co-founder and former CEO of PayPal Peter Thiel has agreed to back Trump as a California delegate in Cleveland this summer. He will be one of 172 selected Golden State delegates headed to the Republican National Convention. His support for Trump contrasts many other leaders, like A16z's Marc Andreessen who has voiced his distaste for Trump, tweeting: "OH: Trump is like an Internet comments section decided to run for President." In the past, Thiel, who is a libertarian at heart, has donated $2.6 million to Ron Paul in 2012 and added $2 million to a Super PAC backing Ted Cruz's former running mate ex-HP CEO Carly Fiorina. He also gave $250,000 to Ted Cruz's bid for Texas attorney general in 2009.

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  1. Re:They got the best one possible by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    > For the Dems, that's because of their "superdelegates" originally supposedly setup as a quota system for minorities,

    I really enjoy seeing unintentionally revealing statements like that. It totally blows a writer's cover of trying to appear impartial. It says "not only am I heavily biased, I am not smart enough to pull off pretending to be unbiased so it is unlikely that anything I have to say is the result of deep thought."

  2. Re:They got the best one possible by _Sharp'r_ · · Score: 4, Informative

    I'm not actually sure which bias direction you're accusing me of, but nothing in my post was intended to convey that I don't have an opinion on the election. Quite the opposite and mostly very negative toward the two currently leading candidates.

    As far as the superdelegates... their purpose is widely suggested by party leaders to be for racial/minority diversity (So minorities don't have to compete with the elite party leaders for delegate spots anymore), but there are very few people who actually believe that.

    WASSERMAN SCHULTZ (D) Congress: Unpledged delegates are our party leaders and elected officials who actually can make up their mind at any point and change their mind. We separate those so that we don’t have elected officials and party leaders running against the activists, but want to make sure are helping to diversify our convention. That is something we take great pride in. A Native-American cancer survivor. Those people should have an opportunity to be delegates, too. And they shouldn’t have to deal with very well-known officials and party leaders. And that’s why we separate them.

    or

    Kendra Cotton (D) political director: Democrats have quotas for gender and preferences for minorities to become pledged delegates, but they don’t give them too much power.

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    The party of stupid and the party of evil get together and do something both stupid and evil, then call it bipartisan.
  3. Re:How is it ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    ... that with all Trump is known for, and who is supporting him, that he has a large following in the low-income parts of the people?

    That's been debunked as a myth, you know...