Billionaire environmental activist Tom Steyer on Thursday said it’s going to take an unconventional candidate to beat President Trump in 2020, saying Mr. Trump managed to take down the “best-prepared candidate in American history” in Hillary Clinton the last time around.
“I think we need a different, unconventional way of attacking a different, unconventional president who actually went after the best-prepared candidate in American history and beat her,” Mr. Steyer said at Thursday’s Democratic presidential debate in Los Angeles.
Mr. Steyer, a former hedge fund manager, pitched his own business expertise as unique among the seven candidates on stage.
“My experience building a business, understanding how to make that happen means I can go toe-to-toe with Mr. Trump and take him down on the economy and expose him as a fraud and failure, and I think that’s different from the other people on this stage,” Mr. Steyer said.
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