Jamie Dimon is the CEO of JPMorgan and describes himself as “barely a Democrat.”
His name has often been floated as a potential candidate for president, and at 68, he seems positively youthful compared to the two frontrunners for president this year. He could run 4 or 8 years from now and still get consideration–although you can bet that Gavin Newsom, Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, Gretchen Whitmer…well, you get it, a lot of Democrats are ahead of him in line for the top slot. They wouldn’t roll over to let him take the top prize.
Not only that, Dimon doesn’t exactly match the mood of the party. He is more in line with the George H.W. Bush wing of the American electorate, which hardly exists as a political force anymore.
In 2019, Dimon told CNBC he considers himself “barely a Democrat,” adding, “my heart is Democratic, my brain is kind of…
