No Fortune 100 CEOs Back Republican Donald Trump

[Likely Voter]

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http://www.wsj.com/articles/no-fortune-100-ceos-back-republican-donald-trump-1474671842

[GeorgiaModerate]

This is really amazing.  Isn't the GOP supposed to be the party of big business?

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

This is really amazing.  Isn't the GOP supposed to be the party of big business?

No. We are a worker's party. Big business needs to go.

[Ronnie]

This is really amazing.  Isn't the GOP supposed to be the party of big business?

It's become the party of white grievance, if you haven't noticed the shift.

[Southern Delegate matthew27]

This is really amazing.  Isn't the GOP supposed to be the party of big business?

The liberterian nutz that back trump are anti-business and anti-freedom to the core.

[ag]

This is really amazing.  Isn't the GOP supposed to be the party of big business?

No. We are a worker's party. Big business needs to go.

No, you are the lumpenproletariat party. Like every other fascist movement in history.

[JA]

This is really amazing.  Isn't the GOP supposed to be the party of big business?

Formerly? Yes. Presently? No. It's now the party of uneducated Whites with cultural resentments against the transformation of America into a globalized, multicultural, and increasingly egalitarian and inclusive society. Wealthy CEOs aren't exactly fans of populist demagogues who'd like to boss them around and shut down the borders which they, of all people, find absurd.

[NHI]

This is really amazing.  Isn't the GOP supposed to be the party of big business?

No. We are a worker's party. Big business needs to go.

Amen!

[Ebowed]

This is really amazing.  Isn't the GOP supposed to be the party of big business?

It looks like the GOP is the party of big money rather than big business.  This means that the people duped into voting for Trump are perfectly content voting for yet another tax-evading millionaire who loves to fire people, as long as he manages to mask it with enough rhetoric about how terrible China is.

The Republicans aren't the working class party and that won't change with this election.  Whites love to overlook that many members of the working class are actually minorities.  Go figure!

[rob in cal]

   Don't think too many CEO's like the idea of restricting immigration, or even the talk thereof.  All aboard the Brazilification train.

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

This is really amazing.  Isn't the GOP supposed to be the party of big business?

No. We are a worker's party. Big business needs to go.

Amen!

Then why are you deluded fools backing a (claimed) multibillionaire who has a decades-long history of defrauding his workers?

[Bismarck]

Dems in 2012: Romney is bad for being the candidate of the rich
Dems in 2016: Trump is bad for not being the candidate of the rich.

[Yank2133]

Dems in 2012: Romney is bad for being the candidate of the rich
Dems in 2016: Trump is bad for not being the candidate of the rich.

More like Trump is so awful that even big business republicans want nothing to do with him and they would support a dog-catcher if there was an R next to his name.

[Xing]

Dems in 2012: Romney is bad for being the candidate of the rich
Dems in 2016: Trump is bad for not being the candidate of the rich.

Cute strawman, but no, we think Trump is bad for... other reasons.

[‼realJohnEwards‼]

It does say something... yes, CEO's want someone who will help them (cut their taxes, etc.), but they also want someone who won't implode the economy. Given that Trump meets the first criterion, what does that say about the second...?

[Bismarck]

Dems in 2012: Romney is bad for being the candidate of the rich
Dems in 2016: Trump is bad for not being the candidate of the rich.

Cute strawman, but no, we think Trump is bad for... other reasons.

I just mean in regards to this thread. If a bunch of fortune 100 CEOs came out tomorrow and endorsed Trump there would be a thread about how he was in the pocket of big money.

[Santander]

I am pro-market, not pro-business. This is totally fine by me.

[Antonio the Sixth]

I hate Drumpf as much as any sane person, but this is not a point in his disfavor.

[Figueira]

I somehow thought it said "Black" as in "None of the black Republican Fortune 100 CEOs are backing Donald Trump."

[EpicHistory]

The Republicans aren't the working class party and that won't change with this election.  Whites love to overlook that many members of the working class are actually minorities.  Go figure!

Hate to break it to you dude, but the working class vote has been voting Republican for quite awhile now.

[Antonio the Sixth]

The Republicans aren't the working class party and that won't change with this election.  Whites love to overlook that many members of the working class are actually minorities.  Go figure!

Hate to break it to you dude, but the working class vote has been voting Republican for quite awhile now.

No it hasn't. No matter how you define "working class" that's just not empirically true.

[Alcon]

The Republicans aren't the working class party and that won't change with this election.  Whites love to overlook that many members of the working class are actually minorities.  Go figure!

Hate to break it to you dude, but the working class vote has been voting Republican for quite awhile now.

Unless we're only talking about the white working-class, by what metric is that true?

[Alcon]

The Republicans aren't the working class party and that won't change with this election.  Whites love to overlook that many members of the working class are actually minorities.  Go figure!

Hate to break it to you dude, but the working class vote has been voting Republican for quite awhile now.

Um... no? Try again.

The Republicans aren't the working class party and that won't change with this election.  Whites love to overlook that many members of the working class are actually minorities.  Go figure!

Hate to break it to you dude, but the working class vote has been voting Republican for quite awhile now.

Unless we're only talking about the white working-class, by what metric is that true?

Don't you know? In Republican fantasy land, blacks don't count as working class. To GOPers, black people are no more than welfare queens who leech off the "hard working rich" and only vote Democrat so that they can receive their free Obamaphones or whatever other nonsense they believe.

I mean, in his possible defense, those in the lower income brackets are about 60% Democratic, and disproportionately don't work.  It may be that the full-time employed working-class, if you want to limit the working-class to those who work, is slightly Republican.  I just don't have concrete evidence that's true.

[EpicHistory]

No it hasn't. No matter how you define "working class" that's just not empirically true.

I should've been more clear in what I was referring to and said the white working class, so my bad on that front. And no, Obama only got 36% from that group in 2012 and 40% in 2008.

[Antonio the Sixth]

No it hasn't. No matter how you define "working class" that's just not empirically true.

I should've been more clear in what I was referring to and said the white working class, so my bad on that front. And no, Obama only got 36% from that group in 2012 and 40% in 2008.

Definitions become important here, but, at the very least, lower-income Whites are still more Democratic than higher-income ones. This might change in 2016.