Presidential candidates are working overtime to court the Black vote. Prior to ending his presidential bid on Saturday night, Tom Steyer made a bizarre last-ditch effort of his own.

The billionaire invited several guests from the culture to stump for his campaign during a stop in South Carolina on Friday, per Rolling Stone. Juvenile was one of those guests and performed a sanitized version of his classic “Back That Azz Up.”

Tom Steyer’s seasonless dance moves provided a field’s worth of corniness. He also offered a few adlibs while Juvie kept the crowd hype.

Steyer’s wife Kat went full Karen in the background and dropped it like it was room temperature. At least they appeared to have a good time even if they were on the ones and twos while everyone else was on the threes and fours.


Clips of the dancing made their way around the internet. Twitter definitely got a kick out of it.

Other guests included gospel star Yolanda Adams, who sang “America the Beautiful,” and DJ Jazzy Jeff.

Steyer got his life during the visit to South Carolina, a state with a sizable Black population. He seemed hopeful even though he isn’t as popular as his opponents. According to an Emerson poll, Steyer shared third place with former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, per The Hill who also dropped out of the presidential race over the weekend.

“Win, lose or draw, I fell in love with the people of South Carolina,” Steyer told the crowd. “I’m never leaving. Honestly, I am never leaving. Because this is a completely righteous fight, and we’re going to win this fight.”

Two-stepping with Juvenile wasn’t the only way Steyer has attempted to reach Black voters. The Washington Post reported Steyer spoke in favor of reparations for descendants of enslaved Black people.

“Every single policy area in the United States has a gigantic subtext of race. We’re talking about education. We’re talking about criminal justice. We’re talking about housing. We’re talking about loans. I started a bank to basically correct the injustice in the financial services industry. Basically, to make loans to black-owned, Latino-owned, and women-owned businesses. We’ve supported over 8,000 affordable housing units,” he stated.

“But more than that, I believe I’m the only person on this stage who believes in reparations for slavery.”

He also advocated for the creation of a commission dedicated to retelling “the story of the last 400-plus years in America of African Americans, of systematic legal injustice, discrimination, and cruelty, but also of 400-plus years of contribution in terms of building the United States of America and leading the United States of America from a moral standpoint.”

One of Steyer’s campaign commercials also promoted atonement for American slavery, as reported by MSN.

"For 400 years, this country has built a racist system of profits made on the backs of incarcerated black bodies," the narrator said. "Reparations are well overdue."

While in South Carolina, Steyer told patrons at a Mexican restaurant there has to be an honest conversation about American history.

“You've got to tell the truth about what happened," he said. “You've got to repair what's done so that we can move on together."

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