{"id":50926,"date":"2015-12-10T09:57:35","date_gmt":"2015-12-10T14:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=50926"},"modified":"2015-12-10T09:58:54","modified_gmt":"2015-12-10T14:58:54","slug":"hedge-fund-manager-ken-griffin-backing-rubio-for-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/12\/2015\/hedge-fund-manager-ken-griffin-backing-rubio-for-president.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge fund manager Ken Griffin backing Rubio for president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) &#8212; Hedge fund manager Ken Griffin of Citadel will support Republican U.S. Senator Marco Rubio of Florida for president in 2016, the billionaire said in a statement on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Senator Rubio is uniquely qualified to lead our nation with conviction and courage to tackle the pressing issues of our time,&#8221; Griffin said, citing strengthening the U.S. military and reducing the size of government as key challenges.<\/p>\n<p>Griffin will raise money for Rubio and contribute &#8220;several million dollars&#8221; to an outside group supporting him, according to CNBC, which first reported the billionaire&#8217;s plans.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-election-rubio-idUSKBN0TT00T20151210#DxSa7q6iiDayHujS.97\">Click here<\/a> to read the entire article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) &#8212; Hedge fund manager Ken Griffin of Citadel will support Republican U.S. Senator Marco Rubio of Florida for president in 2016, the billionaire said in a statement on Wednesday. &#8220;Senator Rubio is uniquely qualified to lead our nation with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hedgeco-news","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50926"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50929,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50926\/revisions\/50929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}