Tom Steyer, the activist billionaire best known for his campaign to impeach President Trump, has jumped into the 2020 contest
. The ability to self-fund gives Steyer the capacity to compete with top tier candidates in the race. And it makes his late entry in the race less problematic — though Steyer could still face challenges hitting the polling and donor metrics required to qualify for the party’s debates.
Steyer joins the 2020 field with one of the most formidable organizations in politics. More than 8 million Americans have signed on to his “Need to Impeach” petition, calling for the constitutional removal of Trump from office. The list includes millions of disaffected and unlikely voters, potentially giving Steyer a unique constituency. But it is untested whether the discontented Democratic masses Steyer has cultivated will flock to him as their 2020 standard bearer.
Steyer’s entry to the race also represents a reversal. He’d announced in January that he was not seeking the Democratic nomination, ending months of speculation he’d encouraged.front and center, a stance that has positioned the San Francisco resident at odds with his friend and representative in Congress, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
As a 2020 candidate, Steyer is also positioned to talk about America’s dangerous polarization. He was a target of the alleged MAGA Bomber, receiving an IED in the mail last October. “If you look broadly at the behavior of the Republican party,” Steyer told Rolling Stone at the time, “there’s a win-at-all-costs lawlessness to their behavior that gives implicit license to other people to behave the same.
Steyer enters the race with some of the same managerial baggage as Sen. Amy Klobuchar, dogged by a reputation for an abrasive and at times explosive style of leadership. When I brought up these issues with Steyer and asked him if he was “cut from presidential timber,” he responded: “I have no answer to your question, but I do have this: I think of myself as a very easy-going person. The only time that changes is when I’m confronted with what I think of as injustice. Then I’m not so easy-going.
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