Tom Steyer is everywhere in South Carolina, on billboards and TVs. But unlike in Iowa or New Hampshire or Nevada, people there don’t just look right past him. Olivianuzzi reports
’A billionaire with heart’ — according to many South Carolinians, anyway. Photo: Sean Rayford/Getty Images “I’m gonna introduce to you the nominee for the Democratic Party and the next real president of the United States,” the man onstage said.He emerged, dressed in his customary tartan tie and rolled-up shirtsleeves, taunting Democrats who would urge him to drop out of the race with the sound of Tom Petty’s “I Won’t Back Down.
Before church in North Charleston, Biden appeared on CBS’s Face the Nation, where he blamed Steyer for his shrinking numbers in the state. “What’s happening is you have Steyer spending millions of dollars out campaigning there, so I think a lot’s happening in terms of the amount of money being spent by billionaires to try to cut into the African-American vote,” he said.
Asked about Biden’s remarks at the Family Worship Center in Yemassee, a rural town about an hour’s drive from Charleston, Steyer said what he’s said any time the issue has emerged since the presidency has been in his sights: “Was it a mistake? Yes. At the time it was very new and I thought they could provide better service. And I decided it’s not something anyone should make money from and I sold it 15 years ago.
Janice, so persuasive that she recounted convincing more than one voter to go with Tom, was pleased. “He’s a billionaire with a heart and I think we need a different kind of president,” she said.
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