A prominent Republican activist and fundraiser says she will back Democrat Hillary Clinton for president and give money to her campaign to stop her own party’s nominee Donald Trump, repudiating him as a dangerous demagogue.
Hewlett-Packard Enterprise CEO Meg Whitman speaks at a press conference in New York on November 2, 2015. (AFP PHOTO/JEWEL SAMAD)
“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,” Meg Whitman tells The New York Times.
The billionaire Whitman, who is CEO of Hewlett Packard Enterprise and used to be chief executive of eBay, calls Trump a “dishonest demagogue” whose election would lead the US “on a very dangerous journey.”
Whitman will donate an amount in the “mid-six figures” to the Clinton campaign, the Times says, quoting one of her aides.
— AFP
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