Astrazeneca, Pfizer, Sanofi, Roche and more. Here are the pharmaceutical giants who funded Biden
From Pfizer to Sanofi, from Johnson & Johnson to Astrazeneca, to Roche, and more: for the first time, pharmaceutical groups have sided massively in favor of Biden and the Democratic Party. Names, numbers and comparisons
The donkey party has galloped (also) thanks to Big Pharma's money. From Sanofi to Pfizer, there are numerous pharmaceutical giants who have donated significant sums of money to support the election campaign of Joe Biden (the most funded) and his allies. Fewer companies that have supported Donal Trump and the Republicans, as Open Secrets points out.
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BIDEN VS TRUMP
Let's start with the general numbers. The winner in terms of funding from Big Pharma is Joe Biden: with $ 6.324 million he is the most funded by the giants of the pharmaceutical sector. Second, Trump arrives remotely with $ 1,590 million (up from $ 438,000 in 2016).
The substantial differences between the presidential candidates are also reflected among the parties they represent: the pharmaceutical giants pushed the Democratic party's campaign with a total of 32.6 million dollars. The Republican party received 19.8 million dollars. In percentages: 62% of the total contributions (62,768,786) went to the donkey, 38% to the elephant.
WHO HAS SUPPORTED THE DONKEY
Among those who have focused more on Biden – as Stefano Graziosi pointed out today in La Verità – is the American Pfizer, which in the past has announced the effectiveness of the vaccine developed with BionTech : it gave the Democratic party 59, 2% of the contribution put in place, equal to $ 2,253,677. To the Democrats also 99.3% of DE Shaw Research's $ 3,328,656 and 90.2% of Masimo Corp's $ 2,172,982.
AbbVie, Abbott and Roche also support the donkey party. Merck & Co, which has ties, according to La Verità, to the husband of Kamala Harris (he was a legal representative on behalf of Dla Piper), has allocated 57.8% of the million dollars made available. Johnson & Johnson 63.5% of $ 1,281,307.
AstraZeneca PLC, Sanofi and GlaxoSmithKline also supported Biden.
WHO HAS SUPPORTED TRUMP
Only three of the Big Pharmas supported Donald Trump: Amgen, which gave Republicans 53.8% of its million and a half; Eli Lilly, with 53.6% of $ 1,053,467; Boston Scientific with 51.2% of 557,447.
THE TREND
It should be noted that the financial commitment of Big Pharma has definitely increased compared to the contributions given in 2018 (44,334,825 dollars) but decreased compared to 2016, when the pharmaceutical giants had put on the plate 64,619,113 dollars (of which 3 million destined for directly support Hilary Clinton's campaign). From 2000 onwards, the companies in the sector are increasingly engaged at a political level.
It is the first time, however, that the Democrats have been allocated a sum greater than that of the Republicans (only in 2008 the funds were in favor of the donkey party, with only one billion difference).
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/astrazeneca-pfizer-sanofi-roche-e-non-solo-ecco-i-colossi-farmaceutici-che-hanno-finanziato-biden/ on Wed, 11 Nov 2020 14:40:40 +0000.