Tom Steyer’s mega-millions debate gambit flops

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/29/tom-steyer-billionaire-2020-debate-1477645

“Tom Steyer is the only one who has been able to spend enough to get the name recognition and the support in the early states” with paid media, said Patrick Murray, director of the Monmouth University Polling Institute, which conducts polls that helped determine which candidates qualified for DNC debates this year. “You can’t turn on a TV in those early states without seeing a Tom Steyer ad.”