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Tom Steyer Takes on Donald Trump and Richard Nixon

A stroll through impeachment history with the long-shot candidate
Source: Jason Henry / The New York Times ​/ Redux

YORBA LINDA, Calif.— What catches Tom Steyer’s eye in the Oval Office are the shelves of carved birds. “Are they wood or porcelain?” he asks. Turns out they’re porcelain. He likes wood ones. Has a bunch at home.

Steyer has never been in the actual Oval Office. We’re in a model, built to scale, in the Richard Nixon Presidential Library, to record the latest episode of the . He’s never been here before, either. It’s an apt place for him to be on this particular day. Steyer built his national political profile on a quest to impeach Trump: In October 2017, he launched Need to Impeach, a political

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