WATCH: Tom Steyer Tells Supporters That He Does Not ‘Want To Be President’

Billionaire businessman and Democratic presidential candidate Tom Steyer suggested on Monday that while he does not want to be president of the United States, the office of the presidency would afford him the opportunity to get things done that he might otherwise could not.

“I know this is going to sound a little strange, kind of — I don’t want to be president, but I do want to do things as president,” Steyer told a crowd while at a campaign stop in Northwood, Iowa. “You know, I am running because I thought — until this week I was the last person to get in, and I got in because I thought, ‘My God, no one is going to tell the truth to the American people’ and we’re not going to actually deal with the critical issues in front of us and we have to.”