Tech billionaire Peter Thiel said he would support Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis if he announces his 2024 candidacy for president but said he has to change one part of his campaign.
“I think DeSantis would make a terrific president if he’s the Republican nominee. I will strongly support him in 2024,” Thiel told Bari Weiss this week during her podcast. “But I do worry that focusing on the woke issue as ground zero is not quite enough.”
Thiel, the co-founder of PayPal and Palantir, then claimed that “the focus on identity politics, on the woke religion, is probably a distraction from stagnation. It’s a distraction from economics.”…