{"id":37884,"date":"2019-07-11T00:24:21","date_gmt":"2019-07-11T00:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=37884"},"modified":"2019-07-11T00:24:21","modified_gmt":"2019-07-11T00:24:21","slug":"steyer-bowed-out-of-2020-race-now-hes-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=37884","title":{"rendered":"Steyer bowed out of 2020 race, now he&#8217;s in"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23TomSteyer%20%23Trumpimpeachment%20%23POTUS&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/gallery_medium.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-37848\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/gallery_medium-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/gallery_medium-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/gallery_medium.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Blogger&#8217;s Note: This item is being reposted after its original version was knocked out by a technological glitch.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>You must be kidding me. This isn\u2019t funny. Not in the least.<\/p>\n<p>Tom Steyer, the hedge fund billionaire who has made it is his life\u2019s mission to impeach Donald J. Trump now wants to run for president of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>And this announcement comes after Steyer said earlier this year that he had no interest in running for president, that he would be fixated only on removing the current president, Trump, from office.<\/p>\n<p>This can\u2019t be happening. Can it? I\u2019m afraid it is.<\/p>\n<p>Of all the candidacies for POTUS that have declared for the upcoming election cycle, this one makes the least sense of all of them. That is to say it makes no sense at all. None, man! Zero!<\/p>\n<p>Steyer has no policy chops I can identify. He\u2019s simply flush with lots of money that he intends to spend on trying to get Trump tossed out of office on his ear. On that point, I am actually on his side.<\/p>\n<p>That is as far as it goes.<\/p>\n<p>The most astonishing counter-intuitive aspect of this guy\u2019s candidacy is the juxtaposition of his effort to impeach Trump and his effort to succeed him as president of the United States if lightning were to strike and the Senate would convict him of high crimes and misdemeanors.<\/p>\n<p>Someone needs to explain how that plays out.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23TomSteyer%20%23Trumpimpeachment%20%23POTUS&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blogger&#8217;s Note: This item is being reposted after its original version was knocked out by a technological glitch.\u00a0 You must be kidding me. This isn\u2019t funny. Not in the least. Tom Steyer, the hedge fund billionaire who has made it is his life\u2019s mission to impeach Donald J. Trump now wants to run for president &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=37884\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Steyer bowed out of 2020 race, now he&#8217;s in<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[7225,8129,7793],"class_list":["post-37884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-2020-election","tag-tom-steyer","tag-trump-impeachment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37884"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37885,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37884\/revisions\/37885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}