Cathie Wood, CEO of American investment firm Ark Invest, said that she plans to vote for Donald Trump, the former U.S. President and presumptive Republican nominee in the upcoming presidential election.

“As I’ve said to my children... as I've said to them, 'Look, I am going to vote for the person who’s going to do the best for our economy.' I am a voter when it comes to economics,” Wood said over the weekend at a Las Vegas conference organized by financial content creator Kevin Paffrath. “And on that basis, Trump.”

In her following remarks, Wood cited economist Arthur Laffer in saying that the first three years of the Trump administration prior to the COVID pandemic have been the “best in U.S. economic history.” Laffer was the economic advisor to Trump’s 2016 campaign.

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