JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon suggested Democrats opposed to former President Trump could help Nikki Haley clinch the nomination.
“Even if you’re [a] very liberal Democrat, I urge you, you know, help Nikki Haley too,” Dimon said in an interview with Andrew Ross Sorkin at The New York Times DealBook Summit on Wednesday.
“You know, get a choice, on the Republican side, that might be better than Trump,” he added.
A few weeks ago, Haley said she spoke with Dimon and found common ground with him and billionaire investor Stanley Druckenmiller on ways to bring down the national debt.
“These are men that see what’s happening. They see that in a couple years, our interest expenses are going to be higher than our national defense budget. They see what’s in the future,” Haley told CNBC earlier this month.
“Social Security goes bankrupt in 10 years. Medicare goes bankrupt in eight. Anyone that says they’re not going to take on entitlement reform means they’re going to go in and be president and leave the country bankrupt,” she added at the time.
Dimon declined to outright oppose the former president, however. When Sorkin asked whether he opposed Trump’s candidacy, Dimon said he “would never say that … ’cause he might be the president.”
“I have to deal with that, too,” Dimon noted.
The Hill’s Tara Suter has the story here.
