<p>Billionaire investor ;Tom Steyer plans to spend at least $110 million in 2018, making him the &#8220;largest single source of campaign cash on the left and placing him on a path to create a parallel party infrastructure with polling, analytics, and staffing capabilities that stand to shape and define the issues the party runs on in November,&rdquo; reports <em>Politico.</em></p>
<p>Steyer is amassing a nontraditional voter base that could play a key role in upcoming elections, but his largest goal &#8211; impeaching Trump &#8211; puts him at odds with Democratic leaders who see fighting for impeachment as a waste of time.</p>
<p>Steyer was the Democratic Party&rsquo;s largest donor before backing down to focus on his own organizations, Need to Impeach and NextGen America. So far, Steyer has invested $40 million in Need to Impeach, which has an email list of more than 5.5 million. Steyer also dumped $5 million into his For Our Future PAC and donated half a million to Florida gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum &#8211; a Democrat in favor of free healthcare and renewable energy.</p>
<p>Combined, Steyer&rsquo;s organizations employ nearly 1,000 people and have attracted more than 2,000 volunteers.</p>
<p>&ldquo;Our list is bigger than the NRA&rsquo;s and we&rsquo;re going to make sure that it votes that way in 2018,&rdquo; says Kevin Mack, lead strategist for Need to Impeach. ;</p>
<p>While Democratic leaders are uncomfortable with Steyer&#8217;s bold talk on impeachment, polls show that Republicans aren&rsquo;t the least bit concerned about it. According to a poll conducted by Steyer&rsquo;s team, only 21% of Republicans are &ldquo;extremely worried&rdquo; that Democrats will impeach Trump if they win control of Congress. More than 40% said they weren&rsquo;t at all concerned about it. ;</p>
<p>&ldquo;In Mack&rsquo;s view, impeachment can be a factor that &lsquo;incites the base&rsquo; and gets them to the polls. Fundamentally, he says that Democratic leaders&rsquo; unwillingness to talk impeachment actually hurts them among the Democratic leading voters,&#8221; reports<em> Politico. ;</em></p>
<p>Need to Impeach will continue airing ads through November, with each buy estimated to cost at least $1 million. In the meantime, NextGen America will focus on getting college students and other young voters to the polls.</p>
<p>&ldquo;There&rsquo;s a lot of talk of young voters in this cycle, but not a lot of action,&rdquo; says NextGen executive director Heather Hargreaves. ;</p>
<p>NextGen claims to have more than 67,000 targeted young voters in Florida&rsquo;s 27th district, an area which encompasses most of Miami. Democrats are aiming to fill that seat, which is being vacated by GOP Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen.</p>