Tech billionaire and ‘lifelong Dem’ Mark Pincus has seen too much: ‘I am voting for Trump’
By David Proppe Nov. 4, 2024
Video game billionaire and “lifelong” Democrat Mark Pincus declared on Sunday he’s pulling the lever for Donald Trump after seeing “too much” over the past year.
Pincus, who founded video game behemoth Zynga, threw his support behind the GOP nominee over Vice President Kamala Harris even though he previously donated a cool $1 million to President Biden’s then-reelection campaign.
“I am voting for Trump,” he wrote on social media. “I have been a lifelong Dem, supporting the past 4 presidential campaigns at $1m each …This past year I have seen too much.”
Pincus listed the US’ declining relationship with Israel, exploding antisemitism nationwide, and the ongoing war against free speech as reasons he wants the 45th president back in the White House.
“Israel is America’s most loyal ally and the only Democracy in the Middle East. It is fighting Iran on 7 fronts and yet it can no longer trust the US,” argued Pincus, who is Jewish.
Reportedly worth north of $1 billion, Pincus was one of a growing number of Dem megadonors to encourage Biden to drop out of the race, the Financial Times reported over the summer.
He told the outlet he preferred Democrats hosted an open convention to pick their nominee.
But after Biden dropped out, prominent Dems were quick to rally around Harris.
Pincus, 58, helped start Zynga in 2007, naming it after his dog Zinga. The software development company is best known for launching FarmVille a couple years later.
While the California voter said he knows his vote in the heavily blue state won’t matter, he thought it was “important” to state his position regardless.
“I know America will continue to be great under the Dems or Trump,” he wrote on Sunday. “And yet I think America and Israel will be stronger under Trump.”
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