WASHINGTON (April 6): U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell lashed out at corporate America on Monday, warning CEOs to stay out of the debate over a new voting law in Georgia that has been criticized as restricting votes among minorities and the poor. In a sign of a growing rift in the decades-old alliance between the conservative party and U.S. corporations, McConnell said: “My advice to the corporate CEOs of America is to stay out of politics. “I found it completely discouraging to find a bunch of corporate CEOs getting in the middle of politics,” McConnell said. Trump spent months after losing his re-election bid falsely claiming that his defeat was the result of widespread fraud. The Georgia law brought a backlash from some U.S. companies with strong ties to the state.

Source: The Edge Markets April 05, 2021 18:33 UTC