Tycoon Ken Griffin, one of the biggest donors to the U.S. Republican Party’s electoral campaigns, has called for the party to move away from the figure of former President Donald Trump and make way for a new batch of leaders.
«(Trump) did a lot of things really well, but he also failed in some important areas. And for a host of reasons, I think it’s time to move on to the next generation,» Griffin has said in an interview for Politico.
Griffin, majority owner of the investment firm Citadel, has been one of the main economic drivers of the campaign for the re-election of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, whom the pools also place as Trump’s biggest rival to lead the Republican candidacy in the 2024 presidential election.
In fact, the tycoon has acknowledged that the United States would be «well served» with DeSantis, although he has avoided clarifying whether he would vote for him as president. «The big question is, is he going to run?» he has answered questioned on whether he would support DeSantis.
Griffin, who is estimated to have invested more than $60 million to support Republican candidates in 2020, did not donate directly to Trump’s campaign, according to The Hill.
Trump and DeSantis seem destined to face each other in a future primary election in the Republican Party to determine which of the two will be the conservative proposal for the 2024 presidential elections.
The crosses of accusations between the two have already begun today, in the run-up to the mid-term elections in which the Republicans aspire to achieve a majority in the Senate and further complicate the two years of term remaining to the President of the country, Joe Biden.
