Steyer won't run for president in 2020
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Source: Politico
Tom Steyer, the billionaire environmental activist, will announce that he will not run for president and instead focus on his effort to remove Donald Trump from the White House.
Steyer is set to detail his plans in downtown Des Moines later Wednesday, one of several states where hes launching a new round of ads as part of his multi-million-dollar TV and digital campaign calling for Trumps impeachment, a source with knowledge told POLITICO.
Steyer has flirted with runs for office before, including for governor of California in 2018 and the Senate in 2016. But people close to him said this was most serious hes ever been about running.
Hes been working the phones and reshuffling staff in recent weeks, after spending more than $120 million in the midterm election cycle. With an eye toward a presidential run, Steyer also has been courting staffers and speaking with high-level operatives who could guide a campaign.
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The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,674 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,584 posts)continue with his goal to impeach. He organized a lot of people during the midterms to GOTV and will continue with his good work to impeach the fucking moron.
https://www.needtoimpeach.com/
TeamPooka
(24,221 posts)wanting to be an entry level President, again.
randr
(12,409 posts)now we have people who are declaring they will not run. Hell I'll join that parade; I will not officially be running myself.
I hope to hell we liberals don't end up looking like the Republican Clown Car last cycle.
Aristus
(66,316 posts)Exactly what I thought!
Hassler
(3,376 posts)StevieM
(10,500 posts)the battle against climate change. And in recent times he has been fighting to impeach a lawless president.
I had planned on supporting him. I am saddened that he won't be running.
WhiteHat
(129 posts)Tom Steyer was right all along. We're going to have to get rid of Trump by any means possible.
Where he was mistaken (even brilliant people can be mistaken) was in the believe that simply spending money [from a rich guy] could count for anything.
I'll repeat: Tom Steyer was right. It's also true that he's wasted millions. Not because of Trump, but because Steyer never aligned himself with the cure(s) for Trumpism: the corruption that allowed clowns like the Trump family to achieve national prominence, or Mitch McConnell's (or the NRA's) abject complicity with the Trumps and Russia, or the known "secret" of Trump's complicity in Russia's attack on US sovereignty.
Tell me, Tom Steyer, how many millions of dollars have Trump and McConnell received, directly and indirectly, from foreign interests? It's the most pressing issue of our time. But you don't know, apparently. How could you? But it makes you and all the money you've spent irrelevant.
You want to be relevant, and quit wasting money? Provisionally Back OAC (if you can believe in her, she's quite noisy), and, in the short term, Pelosi. She's ripped the face off of Trump multiple times, and she ain't through yet. In the words of her own daughter, "she'll rip your head off and you won't even know you're bleeding."
Personally, I'd want to know that my victim knew he was bleeding, but I get it. It's a sort of "politeness" that I'm not familiar with, but no less effective.
Back Liz Warren, Tom Steyer. Her anti-corruption platform is the perfect cure for what ails us now. Talk about her "likeability" is obviously nothing more than GOP-Opposition-speak, since they all know she's right and they have NOTHING to offer after 30 years of failed trickle-down. She's a fuckin' Harvard fuckin' Economics professor, for fuck's sake. She understands what the middle class has to endure because she grew up in Nowheresville/Bumfuck Oklahoma, hoping for the best but not expecting it.
Her "cures" are transparently obvious to anyone with a brain, she's facing turn-away crowds even in redneck Iowa... and she's right. We all know she's right, even if we choose, for purely political purposes, to say she isn't, today. But she's till right.
StevieM
(10,500 posts)We need a good environmentalist in the race.
My original plan, back in 2017, had been to support Jay Inslee, but I am struggling to get past my disagreement with him on surrogacy laws.