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Eric Newcomer and Bill Allison | Bloomberg
Silicon Valley software engineers seem more loyal to the left wing of the Democratic Party than to their own employers.

Presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren, who has called for breaking up Facebook, Amazon and Google, raised over $173,000 from tech industry employees in the third quarter, according to Bloomberg News’s analysis of public data on political contributions from employees at 10 large tech firms.

That was the most of any Democratic presidential candidate. Senator Bernie Sanders, another vocal tech critic, raised the second-most with about $155,000. Pete Buttigieg ranked third among the candidates, and Andrew Yang was fourth. Former Vice President Joe Biden,

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