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Tom Steyer Wants the 2020 Democrats Supporting Impeachment

The billionaire founder of Need to Impeach is planning to turn his 7 million supporters loose on all of the presidential candidates. Their campaigns aren’t pleased.
Source: Matthew Putney / Reuters

Tom Steyer is launching an effort to make every Democrat campaigning to run against President Donald Trump first come out in support of impeachment. Volunteers from Steyer’s organization, Need to Impeach, already showed up at several of Elizabeth Warren’s events during her first swing through Iowa earlier in the month and tried to pin her down on impeachment.

Soon, Steyer’s team will expand that effort as other candidates swing through the early-voting states. More is in the works, as the San Francisco–based billionaire and impeachment activist promises to put in another $40 million, on top of the $50 million he invested last year, to turn his list of 7 million people who’ve signed his online petition to impeach Trump into a “force on the ground” for pressing the issue.

He’s a new, and so far unique, presence in American politics: a man with essentially unlimited resources on

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