Tech Bosses Expect Biden To Win The US Presidential Election More Than Trump
JAKARTA - The 2020 United States (US) Presidential Election is entering the vote counting stage. The tight competition between Donald Trump and Joe Biden has also been observed by bosses of technology and media companies such as Facebook, Twitter and Google.
Regardless of who will win the race to the White House. In fact, many media and technology giants have made their choices and hope that Joe Biden will win the 2020 US Presidential Election this year.
Not without reason, if they are compact enough not to want Donald Trump to become President of the United States again. Call it Donald Trump's tendency to have an opinion on social media, forcing people like Facebook and Twitter to work hard to be responsible for the content Trump frequently posts.
Not to mention the antitrust issue which is a hot topic for tech giants like Google, Facebook and Twitter. Surely Joe Biden's victory could provide an alternative to the US Justice Department's lawsuit against the tech giant.
Indeed, the majority of technology bosses are sympathizers of the Democratic Party in the US. In fact, the amount of money they donated in 2020 is aimed at preventing Trump from being re-elected and also for the Democratic Party to control the senate.
Facebook founder Dustin Moskovitz for example, donated 24 million US dollars. Former Google CEO, Eric Schmidt, donated 6 million US dollars. Both of them are important donors of Future Forward USA who seek Joe Biden to become president in the 2020 US Presidential Election.
So it is only fitting that Donald Trump could accuse the big technology companies and the media of uniting against him to support Joe Biden. Including the issue raised by Trump about China.
"Big technology, big media and big strong donors desperately need sleepy Joe to win. They want him to win. I'll tell you who wants him to win. China. They will own our country because they have it," Trump said at the time. campaigned in the State of North Carolina, as quoted by Financial Express. Wednesday November 4th.
Not only the bosses of technology giants, according to a report from the Center for Responsive Politics, 98 percent of employees at internet companies have voted for the Democratic Party. Given Donald Trump's policies regarding immigration, trade and also the handling of the Corona pandemic, they have drawn a lot of criticism from among them.
It is undeniable that the support from the technology bosses to Joe Biden was done to release the big competition in the Big Tech market from China. Moreover, the fast economic sector in the US is technology, be it software, social media to hardware.
According to market analyst Scott Galloway at the Sydney Morning Herald daily, technological reforms are needed to break the deadlock in the market. This includes securing a talented global workforce to a return to a more stable relationship with China.
For Galloway, who is not a fan of the current administration, he sees Trump's way of maintaining the Silicon Valley status quo as a bluff. Instead, it forces the tech giants to seek new guidelines that exceed Trump's expectations.
"Look at the Trump administration's erroneous, inconsistent and incompetent approach to technology - it wants to ban TikTok, but where is the legal precedent? Well, we don't have one we don't like," he said.
So far, the acquisition of electoral votes for the Democratic presidential candidate from the United States (US), Joe Biden, continues to increase leaving President Donald Trump's electoral votes. Joe Biden won 248 votes over Donald Trump who got 214 votes.
It should be noted that the US Presidential Election adopts an electoral college system or a representative system, so the electoral votes will determine the victory of a presidential candidate. It takes at least 270 electoral votes - out of a total of 538 electoral votes - to win the US presidential election