JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon is touting Nikki Haley as the Republican Party candidate who has the best chance of unseating frontrunner Donald Trump — and he wants liberal Democrats to pitch in if it means preventing a second Trump term in the White House.
“Even if you’re a very liberal Democrat, I urge you, help Nikki Haley too,” Dimon, 67, told attendees of The New York Times DealBook Summit on Wednesday.
Dimon’s comments were reported by Bloomberg News.
“Get a choice on the Republican side that might be better than Trump.”
Dimon, who heads the nation’s largest lender, said he would work with Trump if the 45th president returns to the Oval Office in Jan. 2025.
“I’m not taking myself off the playing field,” Dimon said.
Dimon demurred when asked if he would support “anything but Trump.”
“I would never say,” Dimon said. “He might be the president, I have to live with that too.”
Dimon also lamented the fact that liberals, particularly those in New York City, look down on “ultra MAGA” voters.
“You’re insulting a large group of people,” he said in comments that were reported by Politico.
“I just think people [should] stop denigrating each other all the time because people take a point of view that is different than yours.”
The Post has sought comment from Trump and Haley.
Trump remains the prohibitive favorite to win the GOP nomination, but Haley has emerged as the Republican donor class’ best bet to score an upset.
The former South Carolina governor has drawn the support of the powerful Koch brothers through their group Americans for Prosperity Action.
Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung dismissed Americans for Prosperity as “the political arm of the China-first, America-last movement.”
“No amount of shady money from George Soros, Democrats and Never-Trump RINOs in partnership with endless-war swamp creatures in Washington will stop the MAGA movement or President Trump from being the Republican nominee and defeating Crooked Joe Biden,” Cheung wrote in a statement responding to the Haley endorsement.
Ken Griffin, the hedge fund billionaire who had previously backed Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis before his campaign sputtered, has said he is considering throwing his support behind Haley.
DeSantis, who was once viewed as Trump’s most formidable potential challenger, remains in second place, according to some public opinion polls of likely GOP voters.
But the 51-year-old Haley, who was Trump’s ambassador to the United Nations during the first two years of his administration, has either tied DeSantis or vaulted ahead of him in some surveys, including among voters in key states such as New Hampshire and Iowa.
Gary Cohen, the former Goldman Sachs executive who served under Trump as an economic adviser, recently hosted a fundraiser for Haley at his Upper East Side apartment in Manhattan, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Ken Langone, the billionaire founder of Home Depot, told CNBC on Monday that he sees Haley as “the only person…who can give Trump a run for his money.”
Haley will have another chance to make her case to a national audience next week when the fourth Republican debate will be held in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
