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Tom Steyer hopes to fool California voters. Will he?

Tom Steyer may be one of the greatest hypocrites in American politics — and that’s quite an achievement.

His main problem is that when voters look more closely, they see right through him.

That’s what happened when he ran for president in 2020. He collapsed in South Carolina, where the majority of the Democratic Party primary electorate is black.

Though Steyer hired black political consultants, and shared a stage with rappers, and spent millions to dominate the airwaves, Steyer came in a distant third, with just 11.3% of the vote.

(His only consolation was that he finished ahead of Pete Buttigieg, who had his own trouble with black voters, not just in South Carolina but in his home town of South Bend, Indiana.)

Steyer ran for president after passing up the chance to run for California governor in 2018. By then, he had already become one of the biggest donors to the Democrats.

His big issue was climate change. 

In 2014, Steyer — or, rather, Steyer’s money — convinced Democrats to stage a fake filibuster on the Senate floor, protesting climate change all night long. 

The irony: Steyer made his fortune in fossil fuels.

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