Tom Steyer will plow $30 million into midterms, but wont run for office in 2018
Source: Washington Post
Democratic donor Tom Steyer, who has spent more than $100 million since 2016 on political campaigns, will forgo any run for office this year and focus instead on ending Republican control of the House of Representatives.
“People have been asking me for 12 months and five days what I’m going to run for,” Steyer said in an interview before a news conference in downtown D.C. “I’m not going to run for anything. I’ve said all along, the question I always ask is: Where can I make the most differential impact? And when I look at the jobs I can run for in California, they all have reputable Democrats running for them already.”
Steyer’s decision removes some of the drama from California’s races for governor and U.S. Senate, which had attracted ambitious Democrats who had been wanting to move up for years. The billionaire, who plunged into politics in 2013 when he founded NextGen Climate to advocate for Democrats, had been discussed as a 2016 candidate for Senate and seen by some 2018 gubernatorial candidates as a dark horse who could jump in late.
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Having ruled that out, and while raising his national presence with a $20 million campaign to impeach President Trump, Steyer now plans to spend at least $30 million to build NextGen Rising, his 2018 campaign to increase millennial voter turnout. The targets are 24 Republican-controlled congressional districts and a handful of swing seats currently held by Democrats, in 10 states.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2018/01/08/tom-steyer-will-plow-30-million-into-midterms-but-wont-run-for-office-in-2018/
A much smarter use of his money than an Impeachment drive.
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