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Silicon Valley CEOs Appear to Have Chosen Their 2020 Candidate

Buttigieg has out-raised Biden 5-1 among givers in tech world
Warren’s rise worries bundlers who backed Clinton and Obama

Pete Buttigieg attends a Democratic Party event in San Francisco. Photographer: Melina Mara/The Washington Post via Getty Images

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By Bill Allison, Jeff Taylor, and Sophie Alexander

October 22, 2019 at 4:00 AM EDT

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The technology industry is looking for something different in a president in 2020. And it appears Pete Buttigieg is their candidate.

While Joe Biden and Senator Elizabeth Warren are topping national polls in the contest for the Democratic Party’s nomination, California’s deep-pocketed Silicon Valley is donating to the 37-year-old mayor of South Bend, Indiana over the former vice president by a 5-to-1 margin.

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