U.S. presidential candidates have won or lost key states by as little as 11,000 votes, giving crypto users the chance to “move the needle one or two points,” according to Ben Weiss.
Voters supporting the adoption of cryptocurrency and blockchain in the United States could swing an election under the right circumstances, according to CoinFlip co-founder and CEO Ben Weiss.
Speaking to Cointelegraph on Feb. 23, Weiss said that this was the first time in a major U.S. election that digital assets could flip a race for candidates of either party. Major Republican Party candidates for president, including Vivek Ramaswamy and Ron DeSantis — before they dropped out of the race — mentioned central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) as a campaign issue, and frontrunner Donald Trump suggested in February he could live with Bitcoin (BTC) “one way or the other.”
“There’s no political reason for him to be against it,” said Weiss on Trump’s support of crypto. “He doesn’t gain anything from being against it, but if he’s for it, he could pick up a couple points here and there. [...] Bitcoin can kind of appeal to both sides of the political spectrum.”
