California billionaire Tom Steyer is doubling his spending on ads calling for President Donald Trump’s impeachment to $20 million.
The Democratic donor said Thursday that he’ll release two new ads in the coming weeks. That’s on top of an ad he began airing nationally in October.
His fresh investment comes despite prominent Democrats such as U.S. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi arguing that impeachment calls are a distraction.
Steyer says “establishment” Democrats don’t understand how to motivate the party’s voters.
Steyer’s ad has drawn rebuke from Trump as well as Fox News, which is refusing to air it. Trump has called Steyer “wacky and totally unhinged.”
Steyer is weighing a run for U.S. Senate against fellow Democrats Dianne Feinstein, the incumbent, and Kevin de Leon.
(AP)
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Seriously nothing better to do with your money.. poor people can use it..
In the late 1990s the Republicans spent a great deal of effort trying to get President Clinton impeached (based on actual misconduct, albeit not “high crimes” as defined by the Consttution) and it backfired. The Republicans did poorly in the 1998 Congressional elections, and only won in 2000 since the Democrats and their allies “kicked the ball into their own goal” (thanks to Ralph Nader and the Greens, and the incompetence of the Florida Democrats in showing their voters how to mark their ballots). The Democrats would be better to focus on issues and stop trying to demonize Trump with language alienates people.