Tom Steyer says Warren and Sanders are the Establishment [View all]

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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