Tom Steyer Spends Millions To Get 200,000 Donors, Finally Makes Debates

Billionaire investment banker-turned-radical environmentalist Tom Steyer has managed to raise just enough money, after spending more than $40 million of his own, to qualify for the Democratic debate stage.

Steyer finally reached the threshold for polling, ticking 5% in a recent Quinnipiac national poll of South Carolina voters — one of the few polls that the Democratic National Committee recognizes for qualifying for the debate stage — and his campaign announced Tuesday morning that they met the 200,000 individual donor threshold, the other mandated qualifier.