Trump or Clinton? Donors from Charlotte's top companies had a clear favorite
KNIGHT RIDDER/TRIBUNE 11:32 AM ET 3/8/2017
March 08--Employees of Charlotte's biggest companies donated nearly five times more money to Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential race than Donald Trump, an Observer analysis of recently released federal data shows.
In total last year, employees of those companies contributed $838,434 in support of Clinton, a Democrat, versus $173,471 for her Republican rival, according to data released last month and compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics.
That marks a seismic shift from 2012 when employees for the same companies -- which include Charlotte's seven Fortune 500 firms and its two largest hospital systems -- gave twice as much money to Republican Mitt Romney over Democrat Barack Obama.
