On the same panel, Blackstone Inc’s Steve Schwarzman also weighed in but less directly. “I don’t know who’s going to win the presidency,” he said, adding that compared to 2016, Trump “is in a much better base of knowledge of how that job works and how to be efficient and effective in doing it.”
Financier Ken Griffin expects the race to the White House will be close, but Donald Trump will ultimately win.
“The expectation today is that Donald Trump will win t the White House,” the billionaire founder of Citadel said on a panel at Saudi Arabia’s Future Investment Initiative summit. “We are at that moment of peak uncertainty. It is a race that Trump is favoured to win but it is almost a coin toss.”
