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Trump’s energy industry donors defect to his primary rivals
« on: July 20, 2023, 02:35:47 pm »
 Trump’s energy industry donors defect to his primary rivals

Deep-pocketed energy industry titans who supported Donald Trump in the past are donating to his competitors in the 2024 presidential primary.

By Robin Bravender

07/19/2023 04:30 AM EDT

Energy industry executives who backed former President Donald Trump are now shelling out cash to his competition, according to the latest campaign finance reports.

Oil and gas magnate Harold Hamm donated to Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley. Pipeline mogul Kelcy Warren and Midland Energy Inc. CEO Syed Javaid Anwar contributed to DeSantis, too. Billionaire energy executive Jeffery Hildebrand is backing North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum’s campaign.

Coal executive Joe Craft and his wife, Kelly — who served as ambassador to the United Nations under Trump — have donated to DeSantis, Mike Pence, Vivek Ramaswamy and Chris Christie.

Meanwhile, none of those wealthy energy donors has cut Trump big checks for his 2024 campaign, according to campaign finance reports due Saturday.

“The simple explanation is that Trump has issues,” said Bill Miller, a longtime Texas lobbyist.

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Re: Trump’s energy industry donors defect to his primary rivals
« Reply #1 on: July 20, 2023, 03:16:12 pm »
Energy was one of the issues that Trump was absolutely spot on. And it’s more pronounced when you look at the current administration’s war on domestic energy production

But if this is true, it’s a major blow to Trump’s campaign. There isn’t any Republican candidate running for 2024 that advocates for a Green New Deal so the energy industry would be safe with any Republican in the White House

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Re: Trump’s energy industry donors defect to his primary rivals
« Reply #2 on: July 20, 2023, 11:32:52 pm »
Desantis needs voter donors.
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Re: Trump’s energy industry donors defect to his primary rivals
« Reply #3 on: July 20, 2023, 11:46:08 pm »
   The Energy donors are seeing the light, backing the winner.  That wasn't a Trump Energy Miracle, h3ll even Gov Pataki would have made us Energy Independent, It was backing off regulation in the Oil Patch, IMHO.
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Re: Trump’s energy industry donors defect to his primary rivals
« Reply #4 on: July 21, 2023, 05:26:22 am »
Where Trump shone in this department was in clearing away crap to help projects happen.

The Dakota Access Pipeline was being held up at every turn, and trump helped get the job done. It has a current takeaway capacity of over half a million barrels of oil per day. Otherwise, that oil would move by rail, which in and of itself would have stifled the development of the Bakken/Three Forks fields, which account for over a million barrels of oil a day.

Similarly, Keystone XL was making progress under Trump after delays during the Obama terms, and was stopped (again, fatally for the project) by Biden on day one of his term with an EO. Much of what Trump did for the Energy industry was right, but some of those projects had been gathering steam since the Bush administration.
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Re: Trump’s energy industry donors defect to his primary rivals
« Reply #5 on: July 23, 2023, 11:22:22 pm »
Quote from: corbe on July 20, 2023, 11:46:08 pm
   The Energy donors are seeing the light, backing the winner.  That wasn't a Trump Energy Miracle, h3ll even Gov Pataki would have made us Energy Independent, It was backing off regulation in the Oil Patch, IMHO.

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