--- title: 2016 Election: Meg Whitman Endorses Clinton description: The Republican CEO urges all Republicans to reject Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election canonical: https://time.com/4436313/meg-whitman-clinton-trump/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-08-03T04:13:58.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T23:44:09.656Z article:section: Politics og:title: HP Enterprise CEO Meg Whitman Says She'll Vote for Clinton og:description: She may be a Republican, but that doesn’t mean she is supporting Donald Trump og:url: https://time.com/4436313/meg-whitman-clinton-trump/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7c78fa3c51b3f280/6988a0e65f570f62beb220e7/gettyimages-545538236.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: The Allen & Co. Media And Technology Conference og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: HP Enterprise CEO Meg Whitman Says She'll Vote for Clinton twitter:description: She may be a Republican, but that doesn’t mean she is supporting Donald Trump twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7c78fa3c51b3f280/6988a0e65f570f62beb220e7/gettyimages-545538236.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # HP Enterprise CEO Meg Whitman Says 'No' to Trump, but 'Yes' to Clinton by [Jonathan Vanian / Fortune](https://time.com/author/fortune/) ## Jonathan Vanian / Fortune Fortune Aug 3, 2016 4:13 AM UTC  Margaret "Meg" Whitman, president and chief executive officer of Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co., in Sun Valley, Idaho, on July 8, 2016. Margaret "Meg" Whitman, president and chief executive officer of Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co., in Sun Valley, Idaho, on July 8, 2016.David Paul Morris—Bloomberg/Getty Images by [Jonathan Vanian / Fortune](https://time.com/author/fortune/) ## Jonathan Vanian / Fortune Fortune Aug 3, 2016 4:13 AM UTC Hewlett Packard Enterprise CEO Meg Whitman may be a Republican, but that doesn’t mean she is supporting Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. Whitman said on Tuesday that she will not vote for Trump and that she urges every Republican to reject him for the upcoming November presidential election. She said she would cross party lines and vote for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton instead. The Hewlett Packard Enterprise [HPE](http://fortune.com/company/hpe/) \-1.47% CEO cited numerous reasons for not supporting Trump, including what she perceives are “Trump’s reckless and uninformed positions” on immigration, the national economy, and foreign policy. “To vote Republican out of party loyalty alone would be to endorse a candidacy that I believe has exploited anger, grievance, xenophobia and racial division,” Whitman said in a statement. “Donald Trump’s demagoguery has undermined the fabric of our national character.” Whitman’s decision to publicly denounce Trump’s bid for the presidency is noteworthy considering Whitman’s history with politics. In February, Whitman [accompanied](http://fortune.com/2016/02/02/chris-christie-hewlett-packard-meg-whitman/) New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie for a week when Christie was campaigning in New Hampshire prior to the state’s presidential primary. She also supported Mitt Romney during the 2012 presidential election, and ran for governor of California in 2010. “I will vote for Hillary, I will talk to my Republican friends about helping her, and I will donate to her campaign and try to raise money for her,” Whitman told [The New York Times](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/03/us/politics/meg-whitman-hillary-clinton.html?%5Fr=0). She told the newspaper she believes it is time for Republicans “to put country first before party.” Here’s Whitman’s full statement on Trump: --- > “” --- [_This article originally appeared on Fortune.com_](http://fortune.com/2016/08/02/hewlett-packard-enterprise-meg-whitman-donald-trump-hillary-clinton/) 2016 Election: Meg Whitman Endorses Clinton ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4436313/meg-whitman-clinton-trump/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4436313/meg-whitman-clinton-trump/"},"headline":"HP Enterprise CEO Meg Whitman Says 'No' to Trump, but 'Yes' to Clinton","datePublished":"2016-08-03T04:13:58.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T23:44:09.656Z","description":"The Republican CEO urges all Republicans to reject Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election","url":"https://time.com/4436313/meg-whitman-clinton-trump/","keywords":["2016 Election","2016 Election topic"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7c78fa3c51b3f280/6988a0e65f570f62beb220e7/gettyimages-545538236.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Jonathan Vanian / Fortune"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7c78fa3c51b3f280/6988a0e65f570f62beb220e7/gettyimages-545538236.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"The Allen & Co. 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