Who will the world’s richest woman endorse in 2024 election? Walmart heiress Alice Dalton – worth $95billion – has backed female candidates in the past… but is a registered Republican
Walmart heiress Alice Walton is now the richest woman in the world and all eyes are on her to see who she will support in the upcoming presidential election.
Walton, 74, the only daughter of Walmart founder Sam Walton, is said to have been Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
She ranks behind her brothers – Rob and Jim – on the billionaires list, with each sibling owning nearly 12 percent of the retail superpower. She is also said to have amassed more than $15 billion over the years from stock sales and dividends.
The world’s richest woman uses her wealth for philanthropic purposes and has a track record of donating to political parties.
Public records show Walton is a registered Republican and donated to Nikki Haley’s 2023 campaign, even after Donald Trump said he would run again.
But Walton supported Hillary Clinton in 2016 and has donated portions of her vast fortune to Democrats in the past.
Walmart heiress Alice Walton is now the richest woman in the world with a net worth of $95.1 billion
She uses her wealth for philanthropic purposes and has a history of bipartisan political donations
She has not yet publicly stated who is endorsing her in the 2024 presidential election between Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris, nor did she respond to questions from DailyMail.com on Monday.
According to Federal Election Commission records, the heiress donated money in 2020 to the left-wing political action committee ActBlue and Democratic politicians such as Hakeem Jefferies.
In 2016, Walton donated a whopping $353,400 to the Hillary Victory Fund. She also donated to Clinton’s 2008 campaign, but donated $10,000 to John McCain that same year, according to Forbes.
Walton turned to art curating after purchasing her first piece of art when she was just 10 years old.
This interest led her to found the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, which opened to the public in 2011 in her hometown of Bentonville, Arkansas.
Walton, who previously received a drunk driving ticket that was later dropped, reportedly donated her own art collection as the basis for the exhibits and spent more than $300 million building the facility.
Walton (center) sits behind her brothers — Rob (left) and Jim (right) — on the billionaire list, with each sibling owning nearly 12 percent of Walmart
Walton founded the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art as a nonprofit charitable organization to bring art to the public
Today, works by Andy Warhol, Jackson Pollock and Norman Rockwell, among others, can be seen.
The museum’s website describes Walton as a philanthropist “committed to expanding access to the arts, improving education, improving health, and expanding economic opportunity for all.”
She also bred horses on a ranch in Texas for over a decade, which she sold in 2015. Over the years, she has owned six championship horses.
In 2017, she founded the Alice L. Walton Foundation, which is committed to expanding access to the arts, improving education, improving health and expanding economic opportunity for all, according to her biography.
In 2022, the holistic health institute she founded the previous year in Bentonville was renamed the Alice L. Walton School of Medicine.