Tom Steyer

Look, so my mom and dad, I told you about my mom and dad.

My grandfather was a research doctor and a professor.

Never made more than $2,800 in a year.

My grandmother hated him for it.

She was like, George, you could make a lot more money if you go into private practice.

He didn't want to.

And so they lived in Minneapolis.

And when I was like 40 years old, my mom was visiting us and I said, hey, mom, do we have a nicer house than the house you grew up in, in Minneapolis, where her father was a professor at the University of Minnesota?

And she goes, I think you have a nicer staircase.

We live exactly the same way.

And that's exactly how I like to live.

I love California and California is expensive, but I don't want to live differently from the way my grandparents lived or my parents lived.

I don't want to be someone who's isolated from human beings.

You know, the joy

The privilege and the education of being a candidate is getting out and meeting Californians face to face all over this incredibly diverse state and learning about them and learning how great they are.

And that has been, people say, is this hard?

And I'm like, I am having a ball.

I am meeting so many great people and learning, you know, and I'll give you an example.

You know, there was a terrible tragedy yesterday at the Islamic Center of San Diego.

It's terrible.