Power The Future Presents: Top 10 Reasons Why Tom Steyer Is Afraid To Run For President January 12, 2019 He saw the polling on impeachment. He knows he can’t run on his losing record in 2018 ballot initiatives. He saw how much money he spent just to get 5 million signatures. He knows that he’s not very popular with the young folks. He hates that AOC is stealing his crappy ideas. He realized that if he couldn’t elect Gillum, he couldn’t get himself elected. Like Hillary, he doesn’t want to visit rural America. He’s afraid people would ask why he’s OK with coal in China but not America. He realizes that Climate Change is also a joke of a political issue. He knows that despite spending nearly $250 million to be popular, no one knows who he is. Back to Blog Posts