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Source: Miami Herald
The multibillionaire casino businessman and Republican donor Sheldon Adelson endorsed Donald Trump early Friday morning, urging fellow Republican donors and party members to unite behind the presumptive nominee.
“While the primary cycle still has some important elections ahead, it is clear that Donald Trump will be the Republican nominee for president,” he wrote in a Washington Post commentary. “I am endorsing Trump’s bid for president and strongly encourage my fellow Republicans — especially our Republican elected officials, party loyalists and operatives, and those who provide important financial backing — to do the same.”
Adelson, one of the Republican Party’s largest donors, has given generously to presidential candidates in the past. He donated at least $155 million in the 2012 presidential cycle along with his wife Miriam, at least $30 million of which went to a Mitt Romney super PAC. He was wooed by several GOP candidates during this election’s primaries but ultimately withheld an endorsement. The Las Vegas Review-Journal, which his family secretly purchased late last year, did endorse Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida before he dropped out of the race in March.
Adelson wrote that though he doesn’t agree with Trump “on every issue,” the real estate businessman is “a CEO success story that exemplifies the American spirit of determination, commitment to cause and business stewardship.”
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Well, so much for a fractured party. Adelson only could bankroll a Presidential campaign, but now you have billionaires backing billionaires.
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