Is Silicon Valley Changing Support of Donald Trump? David Sacks and his All In show: The tech revolution before Donald Trump and Ryan Selkis

Silicon Valley is an old stronghold of the liberal party and recent reports state that it is shifting its support to Donald Trump. David Sacks, a venture capitalist and friend to Elon Musk, has said as much on his All In podcast. He raised more than 12 million dollars for the Trump campaign last month and attracted a lot of donations, including ones from investors like the Winklevoss twins.

“David [Sacks] has been a Republican for a long time,” Keith Rabois, an investor and top Republican donor, wrote in an email to WIRED. Chamath, a recent convert to the GOP, is unsure of the number of new Republicans there. (Rabois wrote that, to his knowledge, there were “less than 2 serious tech leaders” at the Trump fundraiser, which his husband attended, and that the donors were mainly old-money San Francisco Republicans.)

Chief among them is Sacks and his All In show, as well as Palihapitiya, David Friedberg and Jason Calacanis. There is no real reason to think, though, that Sacks and his group represents a broader constituency.

Assertions like Selkis’ and long-winded missives like Sacks’ have seemed, in recent weeks, to augur a political tide change—and Biden’s recent debate performance provided a perfect pretext for it to take hold. There is no evidence of a shift in technology, even after a revolt among donors and elected officials made it appear as if Biden might end his candidacy.

“The voters have experienced four years of President Trump and four years of President Biden. David Sacks, the tech investor and close associate of Musk, wrote on his website that he called the reception a “A/B test” in tech. Donald Trump performed better with regards to economic policy, foreign policy, border policy and legal fairness. He deserves a second term as President.

The supposed Silicon Valley revolt happened even before the debate. Ryan Selkis wrote on X last month, “The Blue Wall of tech is crumbling before our very eyes.” He was referring to an event that sold out just days after Donald Trump’s conviction on 34 criminal counts for his role in a hush-money scheme.

Reid: No, but there is a portion of it. Biden is still a huge supporter of every person who has been a lifelong Democrat in Silicon Valley. Some lifelong Republicans still don’t like Trump because he’s anti-science and he’s an insurrectionist.

And some of them have gotten louder about supporting Trump because it’s a contrarian horse that they can ride in and become a truth-teller. So there’s louder voices among the lifelong Republicans for Trump than there were before, but they were there. They probably voted for Trump last time. They’re voting again for Trump.

But speaking with a few of the investors it seems like not much has changed. It sounds like some of the most prominent conservative venture capitalists have recently gotten more vocal about their support for Trump.

Hey, everyone! It’s Makena. I got to go to the Adirondacks. Since I left, a lot has happened. There is a question as to what the heck is happening with Joe Biden and the Democratic nomination.