Dimon, Jamie
1956–
Dimon's framework — skilled immigration, infrastructure investment, fiscal restraint with strategic spending, stakeholder capitalism (the 2019 Business Roundtable statement he co-signed), and a generally pro-trade posture — splits this race. Abbott aligns with Dimon on infrastructure (Samsung Taylor, TRAIGA sandbox, Texas CHIPS Act) and on the business-relocation pitch but runs against Dimon on skilled immigration (ending DACA-related driver's licenses, in-state tuition reversal). Hinojosa runs with Dimon on immigration humaneness, on her data-center cost-allocation framing (which Dimon would recognize as basic externality pricing), and on HB 3488 Public Benefit Corporations (a stakeholder-capitalism legal form). Both candidates have mixed records; Hinojosa is moderately closer on the structural strands, Abbott on the dollar-and-jobs strand.
Sources
- Office of the Governor, 'Governor Abbott announces Texas Semiconductor Innovation Fund grant to Samsung Austin Semiconductor.' (full list)
- Hechinger Report, 'What's happened since Texas killed in-state tuition for undocumented students,' 2025. (full list)
- E&E News, 'Spiraling energy costs may tighten Texas governor's race,' 2026. (full list)
- Texas Legislature Online, HB 3488 (85R, 2017), Gina Hinojosa author — creating Texas Public Benefit Corporations. (full list)
- Jamie Dimon, JPMorgan Chase annual shareholder letters; Business Roundtable stakeholder-capitalism statement (2019). (full list)