Tom Steyer at the 2024 TIME Earth Awards Gala in New York on April 24, 2024. Roy Rochlin/Getty Images for TIME/File

Liberal billionaire Tom Steyer announced Thursday that he would spend $12 million backing California Democrats’ redistricting push this fall, becoming the latest megadonor to enter the high-stakes contest.

Steyer, who ran for president in 2020, will fund what his team is calling a “guerilla style” ad campaign, with the first spot set to run tonight on ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” weeks after the hosts’ high-profile clash with the Trump administration over his on-air rhetoric.

The ad appears aimed at provoking President Donald Trump, mockingly portraying Trump throwing food at a TV after a hypothetical victory for supporters of the referendum.

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