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CNBC: Wall Street donors keep their distance from cash-strapped Trump in campaign’s final days

By CNBC.

Published Oct. 22, 2020 at 7:30 am

A supporter of President Donald Trump waves the national flag through the moonroof of her car as supporters gather outside Walter Reed National Military Medical Center after the President was admitted for treatment of COVID-19 on Oct. 4, 2020 in Bethesda, Maryland.

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Conservatives on Wall Street and in the broader finance community apparently no longer consider President Donald Trump a worthy investment. People in the securities and investment industry pumped $20 million into his 2016 run for president, with most going toward super PACs backing his candidacy, according to the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics.