Billionaire environmentalist nutjob activist Tom Steyer wanted to be president. For a few weeks during the 2020 Democratic nomination cycle, this seemed oddly plausible. Then the debates happened and it wasn’t.
Six years later, Steyer has apparently stayed abreast of politics — or, at least, you would think so, considering he’s running for California governor.
He’s also being taken seriously in California’s jungle primary process; he’s one of only five candidates to reach double digits in a Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies poll conducted between March 9-15, and his 10 percent is just 7 points behind the leader of the cattle-car field, former Fox News personality Steve Hilton, but up from just 1 percent of the tally in the same poll in October.
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He’s 5 and 6 percentage points ahead, respectively, of two Democratic favorites with real governmental experience: former Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, and former Los
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