Corporate Donors Swarm GOP Convention

“Much of corporate America has flocked to the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee this week, packing luxury suites high above the arena, cutting checks, sponsoring late-night parties and mingling with Republican politicians as well as former and current Trump advisers over happy hours and lunches,” the Washington Post reports.

“The revelry is a remarkable shift from several years ago, when many corporate donors treated Trump as a pariah after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol and decried his efforts to overturn the election. Companies faced backlash from an angry workforce if they embraced the former president or supported his nascent effort to return to the White House. In the Republican presidential primary, many of the country’s top donors wrote big checks for Nikki Haley or Ron DeSantis, eschewing Trump.”

“But now that Trump is the Republican standard-bearer, more than 300 executives and lobbyists are attending the convention as guests of his campaign.”