Guess what other population Trump’s in trouble with?
A poll was just conducted by the Yale School of Management. They polled attendees at Yale’s Chief Executive Leadership Institute CEO Caucus. These guys like Trump because of his tax and regulatory policies, right?
Wrong.
For one thing, they think the way he’s been handling COVID-19 has cost them money. 84% of them thought Trump’s handling of the pandemic cost them business. 86% of them say there would have been far fewer deaths if the White House had been more proactive.
What grade do they give Trump for his handling of the pandemic? 6% give him an A.
55% of them give him an F. 12% give him a D.
How about China? 62% of them said their businesses suffered from Chinese trade practices
but
78% said Trump’s policies made it worse.
So who are these guys? Among the executives are the people running
GM
IBM
Catepillar
Harley-Davidson
Johnson & Johnson
Goodyear (that one should be no secret at the moment)
But now we get to the big questions:
Who are they donating to and whom do they intend to vote for?
In terms of Wall Street donations, you’d think Trump would be doing well. After all, Romney did great, getting something like triple what Obama got. Well, this time the ratio is nearly 5:1
in favor of Biden.
OK, voting. What did these executives say in the poll? Well, if the title of the conference is to be believed, chief executives.
77% intend to vote for Biden.
To my knowledge, that is not a misprint. 77% intend to vote against a blatantly pro-business Republican President who is reducing their taxes and regulation.
How badly do you have to screw up to lose that kind of support?
Now you know.
I heard about this on Daily Kos, but they got it from CNN.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/29/business/ceos-endorse-joe-biden/index.html
09/30/2020 @ 5:46 pm
This is a great relief. Televised testimonials are often wrong, and polls are constantly changing their methodology, and you don’t know how good they are until after the election. Money, on the other hand, is a very good indication of commitment.
09/30/2020 @ 7:50 pm
The Yale School of Management is a cream of the crop grad school…
Great news coming from the top of the top….
09/30/2020 @ 8:16 pm
Should things really screw up, it’s important to know where Trump’s power base isn’t. He owns the police but the police don’t exactly own themselves as they all have municipal bosses. He does not own the military. And now, perhaps most importantly, he doesn’t own the corporate elite. They’re not open about it because they are afraid of retaliation but they do not have his back.
I hate how money has concentrated in this country but there are certain things the corporate world is not off the rails about. By and large, they are way friendlier to gay rights than the Republicans are. They are, bizarrely, more environmentalist – one thing that came out while Trump was withdrawing from the Paris Accords is that the biggest corporations thought we should not withdraw, and by biggest I mean GE, GM, Goldman Sachs, Exxon Mobil, and Chevron. I still don’t know who he withdrew for. They are more egalitarian – not egalitarian enough, but more egalitarian. It’s distinctly odd but welcome to see Corporate America to the Left of the President.
10/01/2020 @ 10:22 pm
One of your best.
10/02/2020 @ 1:25 am
Thanks, though I don’t know what makes it so. It’s mainly data that I tried to package with a bit of drama.
10/25/2020 @ 6:02 pm
Test. I’m having trouble getting my comments to publish.