This comes from an email sent out by Steyer:
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- I'm putting $30 million behind NextGen America's youth organizing program, to unleash the full political power of young voters.
- I'm also redoubling efforts with the Need to Impeach campaign -- already over 4 million strong.
Our movement is going to take action to stand up to this president in 2018, and demand our elected representatives stand with us. With the people on our side, we're going to send a progressive wave across the country.
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Billionaire Democratic donor Tom Steyer will sink tens of millions of dollars into an aggressive effort to flip the House to the Democrats, giving them a cash boost in their midterm push.
Steyer made his announcement at a Monday press conference in Washington, D.C., where he also ruled out launching his own bid for office in 2018.
Steyer plans to channel the money in the House effort, which he said would total at least $30 million, toward his advocacy group, NextGen America.
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The effort plans to register 250,000 young voters in Arizona, California, Florida, Iowa, Michigan, Nevada, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin. Steyer’s hope is that the turnout among young people, a core Democratic constituency, will boost Democratic fortunes down the ballot.
The Hill
I hope they do better than that.
The model is an expansion of NextGen’s efforts in 2016 and the 2017 Virginia gubernatorial race. NextGen put 60 staffers on the ground in Virginia and knocked on 350,000 doors to help Democrat Lt. Gov. Ralph Northam win the governor’s mansion in November.
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Steyer has kept up his activism since Trump’s election with his “Need to Impeach” effort. He’s spent more than $20 million on advertisements and other pushes calling for Trump’s impeachment, while collecting more than 4 million signatures.
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Steyer is one of the wealthiest Democratic donors in politics — he spent more than $91 million during the 2016 campaign.
Alas, it did not do the job.
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