Major GOP Donor: Clinton Reached Out Personally To Secure My Endorsement

Hewlett Packard Enterprise President and Chief Executive Officer Meg Whitman is interviewed on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Monday, Nov. 2, 2015. The occasion is to highlight Hewlett Packard Enterpriseâ€... Hewlett Packard Enterprise President and Chief Executive Officer Meg Whitman is interviewed on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Monday, Nov. 2, 2015. The occasion is to highlight Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s first day of regular-way trading following its separation from Hewlett-Packard Company. (AP Photo/Richard Drew) MORE LESS
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A Hewlett Packard executive and major Republican donor endorsed Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, saying that Clinton reached out to her personally a few weeks ago, The New York Times reported.

Meg Whitman, the president and CEO of HP, told the Times that she believed Trump was a “threat” and that she planned to make a “substantial” donation to the Clinton campaign.

“I will vote for Hillary, I will talk to my Republican friends about helping her, and I will donate to her campaign and try to raise money for her,” Whitman told The Times.

Whitman’s endorsement shows that Clinton has been reaching out to major GOP figures who are disillusioned by Trump. Whitman said she would help Clinton continue her efforts to reach out to Republican donors.

It was reported in June that Whitman hinted in a closed-door meeting that she’d support Clinton. In that meeting, she also reportedly compared Trump to Hitler.

She told The New York Times she stands by those comments, echoing President Barack Obama’s words that Trump is a “demagogue”

Whitman also made her endorsement public on Linkedin, writing that though she is a “proud Republican,” she has to put principle over party.

“As a proud Republican, casting my vote for President has usually been a simple matter,” she wrote. “This year is different. To vote Republican out of party loyalty alone would be to endorse a candidacy that I believe has exploited anger, grievance, xenophobia and racial division. Donald Trump’s demagoguery has undermined the fabric of our national character.”

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  1. Well, good for Hillary. That takes cojones. Which, in contrast to Don the Con, she has.

    Don the Con has only gall.

  2. I just hope Hillary isn’t making deals with the devil to get these donors support and money

  3. A good counterpunch to Peter Thiel. We knew he was an outlier and Meg has run as a Republican.

  4. More endorsements have probably been arranged, and will be announced at regular intervals. Gets more coverage that way.

  5. What choice does Whitman have? What choice does any sane republican have?

    It’s either Hillary or Trump. She doesn’t have to make any deals, does she?

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