Uppgift: Starbucks tidigare vd kan utmana Trump
Rådgivare till tidigare Starbucks-vd:n Howard Shultz säger att miljardären kan komma att ställa upp som en oberoende kandidat i presidentvalet 2020. Det uppger källor för Washington Post.
Shultz har varit öppet kritisk till Trump men har tidigare nekat till eget intresse i att utmana republikanen. Han lämnade Starbucks förra året utan att uppge varför. Han hade dock påstått att hur han drev bolaget gjorde honom mer kvalificerad att bli president än Trump.
Om han ställer upp som oberoende kandidat så slipper Shultz – ”en trogen demokrat” – det troligtvis trånga startfältet hos Demokraterna, skriver The Hill.
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Wikipedia (en)
Howard Schultz (born July 19, 1953) is an American businessman. He was the CEO of Starbucks in 1986–2000 and again in 2008–2017, as well as its executive chairman from 2017 to 2018. He is a former owner of the Seattle SuperSonics. He was a member of the Board of Directors at Square, Inc. In 1998, Schultz co-founded Maveron, an investment group, with Dan Levitan. In 2016, Forbes magazine ranked Schultz as the 232nd richest person in the United States, with a net worth of $3.1 billion as of April 2017.On December 1, 2016, Schultz announced his resignation as CEO of Starbucks, taking an executive chairman position, effective April 2017. He was succeeded as CEO by Kevin Johnson. On June 4, 2018, Schultz announced his retirement as executive chairman, effective June 26, 2018, becoming chairman emeritus, amid speculation he has U.S. presidential ambitions.
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