Tom Steyer says Warren and Sanders are the Establishment

[JI7]

says only he can take on trump becsuse he is a billionaire.

<Running as something of a patrician populist, Mr. Steyer brushed aside the dissonance of someone with his résumé — Exeter, Yale, Stanford, Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, his own hedge fund — flooding the airwaves with ads that castigate the influence of “the powerful and well-connected.”

“I am the outsider in this race,” Mr. Steyer said in an interview. He described Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders as “part of the establishment” and asked if the front-runner in the polls, former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., really understood what this moment called for.

“Virtually everybody else in this race, including those two senators, comes from D.C., is part of the establishment,” Mr. Steyer said. “So if you think the problem is broken government, which is what I think, if you think that the corporations have bought the government, who do you think is going to reform it? Do you think it’s going to be someone from the grass roots, from the outside, who’s done it for 10 years? Or do you think it’s going to be someone from D.C.? It’s a fair question.”

If the idea of a wealthy mogul running as an unbought outsider against a rigged system and the political establishment sounds familiar, that is no accident.

“Mr. Trump had a point,” Mr. Steyer said. “I think that’s why he got elected. Because the system is broken. It turns out he’s the biggest stooge there is.”His ads have also made an electability argument — that as a billionaire he has the standing to take on Mr. Trump on the economy.>


https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2019/08/27/us/politics/tom-steyer-debate.amp.html

[George II]

1. Oh geeze, this "establishment" BS again. I guess the candidate that winds up with the nomination...

....is the one who is most convincing in his/her argument that all the others are "establishment"!

[Cha]

12. Let's hope Not. lol

That word has nothing to do with how important it is to have the best candidate for the job And to beat trumputin.

[ecstatic]

2. I think Steyer's argument will work with trump voters and

independents, but it won't get him through our primaries. First of all, attacking the 3 front runners is a losing strategy. Period. So hopefully this is a one and done critique of his rivals.

Second, EW is not the establishment--she's fairly new to the Senate.

Third, I've seen Steyer's new "billionaire" ads on TV. I like them because he's attacking trump, but to get through our primaries, he should have continued with the impeachment themed ads. After that, he could pivot to the billionaire strategy for the GE.

Then again, what do I know? His numbers are surging rather quickly. Maybe he's the blank slate candidate we can all agree on.

[BannonsLiver]

3. I'm already sick of the guy. Took about 5 minutes.

[Me.]

4. Go Away

[Autumn]

5. Should he take his money he donates to Democrats with him? Over $245 million in the

2014 to 2018 election cycles alone.

[Me.]

6. Who Says He'll Donate That Amount This Time

if he isn't allowed in

[Autumn]

7. I think he will still continue to support Democrats. He's a decent man and a strong Democrat.

[Me.]

8. We'll See

[StevieM]

14. I like Tom Steyer too.

I hope he gets into the debates, although it is looking less and less likely.

[snowybirdie]

9. You don't win friends

And influence people by dissing their elected and popular leaders. This shows his hubris and over inflated sense of superiority. Likely, a trait highly developed in billionaires. We already have one of those running this country (badly). Tom, face reality and just donate your money to good causes.

[kcr]

10. Billionaire thinks Trump has a point.

That's the shocker of the day.

[corbettkroehler]

11. A Socialist Is The Establishment?

Give me a couple of dozen breaks!

[Cha]

13. I bet BS would disagree since he's always

calling everyone else the "establishment".

The word has lost all potency.

I actually want someone who doesn't throw that word around like it's poison.

[Kahuna7]

15. Oh Dear. LOL!...