Tom Steyer
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That's why I piled on to Prop 50.
because we need we cannot let him use the means of democracy to destroy our democracy and so of course i will stand up every single day as aggressively as i possibly can legally and also in the attention economy to expose him for what he is which is someone who's trying to invade his own country okay but there's something else going on here that i think is really important
He has stupid policies.
The kinds of things that he's talking about that you were talking about today, we want to have 1950s cars.
That's our answer in the 21st century.
We're depending on the oil business to lead the United States of America.
Incredibly stupid.
And I think it's really important as the governor of California, yes, to play three-dimensional chess really aggressively to oppose him when he does all the things to attack California.
But more than that, we have to be willing to go toe to toe on the numbers because this is a failed president.
He is somebody who runs his mouth but knows virtually nothing about the real economy when he says that affordability is a scam.
That means he's completely out of touch with the people, but he's also completely out of touch with the way business works and how his economy works.
And we need somebody who really understands business and the economy and how to put people to work and how do things work for working families to take him on to show there's a better way.
We need to deal with our affordability crisis for darn sure and make sure that working families are taken care of.
But we need to also make the point we have a different system.
We have a system that includes everybody.
And we have a system that's succeeding and competing on a world level.
And that's something he can't show that he can't understand.
We need to have somebody who, and let me just make a quick point here, Ben, just as an example.
Okay, he thinks drill, baby, drill.
Okay, that's his plan.