Billionaire industrialist Charles Koch, a key source of financing for conservative Republican causes along with his brother, said Democrat Hillary Clinton might make a better President than the candid
Billionaire industrialist Charles Koch, a key source of financing for conservative Republican causes along with his brother, said Democrat Hillary Clinton might make a better President than the candidates in the Republican field.
Mr Koch, in an interview to air on Sunday on ABC’s This Week programme, said that in some respects Bill Clinton had been a better President than George W. Bush, who Mr Koch said had increased government spending. Then when asked if Hillary Clinton would be a better President than the Republicans currently running, he said, “It’s possible, it’s possible.”
ABC said Mr Koch, who along brother David leads an influential political organisation called Freedom Partners, has been displeased so far with the tone of the Republican presidential race, in which billionaire Donald Trump leads Senator Ted Cruz of Texas and Ohio governor John Kasich.
Asked if he could support Clinton over the Republicans, Mr Koch responded, “We would have to believe her actions would be quite different than her rhetoric. Let me put it that way.” A spokesperson for the Koch brothers said in March that they would not try to block Mr Trump from winning the nomination.
