Billionaire Tom Steyer is on track to spend more on his campaign to succeed Gavin Newsom than any other gubernatorial candidate in California history. Steyer is running on a progressive agenda to build one million homes, ban corporate PAC money from state elections, and prosecute ICE agents. He’s polling near the top of a tight race.
In this ‘Mehdi Unfiltered’ interview, Mehdi Hasan asks Steyer about his promises, Eric Swalwell dropping out of the race, how he would grade Gavin Newsom as governor, and Trump calling him a ‘SLEAZEBAG’ and a ‘LOSER.’
Watch the full video to hear Mehdi press Steyer about his past, his policies, and his billionaire status.
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I trust Porter to do what she says, but she hasn’t been saying nearly as much as I would have hoped. Like I’ve seen clips of her not being in favor of a one time wealth tax, and that is kind of the dumbest way you’d tax rich people, but her alternative just seemed like being vaguely in favor of taxing corporations. Her persona before now felt like it was about straightforward competence, but that seemed muddled.
On the other hand, I don’t really trust Steyer to do what he says more because I think he’s just going to flounder when winning doesn’t make the legislature immediately conform and “experts” redirect him to lip service efforts. And when that happens it was never really that important to him in the first place and he can just vibe through his term with a new entry in his Wikipedia page.
He feels like an Obama. Talks good ideals but not prepared to tackle the roadblocks to implementing them and not angry or aggressive enough to go to political war when they get blocked. None of these things are going to be solved simply by being elected.
But I don’t know what’s up with Porter and everyone else is unmitigated trash, so I dunno, go for it I guess. But the progressives gearing up to explain why a billionaire is great because he’s a class traitor (on extremely scant evidence) and won’t be corrupt because he’s rich are kind of embarrassing.
Yeah in terms of turdburger vs shit-sandwich, this is definitely one of the elections of all time.
Great interview though. Medhi asked him all the right questions and Steyer mostly answered substantively. This should be the norm for everyone seeking high office.
Medhi is a once in a lifetime talent when it comes to interview and debate. Any candidate who gets interviewed by Medhi comes out looking better just because they Medhi is so skilled at what they do.
It also means they were willing to go up against that level of questioning and think they can handle it. It conveys a confidence in themselves and their platform. Of course it could also end in an embarrassing failure if they’re not ready for it, but if you’re worried about falling on your face under direct questioning, you shouldn’t be running.
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Lets see Porter take that interview.