![Why has New Balance backed Donald Trump as new US President and what other business leaders support him? Why has New Balance backed Donald Trump as new US President and what other business leaders support him?](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/composite-new-balance.jpg?strip=all&w=750&h=500&crop=1)
Why has New Balance backed Donald Trump as new US President and what other business leaders support him?
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New Balance chairman Jim Davis bet $495,000 on Annissa Essaibi George. Tuesday, it paid off - The Boston Globe
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Pro-Trump white supremacists have called New Balance sneakers "the official shoes of white people" — Quartz
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