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What Andrew Yang Could Be Up To

September 10, 2021 at 3:24 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

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News that Andrew Yang, the failed 2020 presidential candidate and 2021 candidate for New York City mayor, is expected to leave the Democratic Party and start a third party this fall was curious.

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The Political Kardashian

May 28, 2021 at 2:14 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Edward-Isaac Dovere: “Andrew Yang is the first celebrity candidate who’s famous for being a celebrity candidate — and he’s defined the New York City mayoral race around him.”

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Andrew Yang’s Insider Campaign

May 10, 2021 at 9:34 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Clare Malone: “Yang’s surprising dominance hasn’t just been luck. He has cannily deployed his fame, charisma, and hustle, bringing his very modern celebrity to a field otherwise low on name recognition and charm.”

“But another part of his success, perhaps more central than most voters realize, must be credited to his team of advisers and close supporters. Many of the city’s most well-connected, savviest strategists have bet on Yang, and in less than two months, eight years after rejecting the legacy of Bloomberg for someone defiantly to his left, New York may very well elect an heir to the billionaire ex-mayor’s worldview.”

Filed Under: 2021 Campaign Tagged With: Andrew Yang


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Andrew Yang Offends Gay Democratic Club

April 22, 2021 at 5:30 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Andrew Yang, the former presidential candidate and leading contender for mayor of New York City, met with a prominent LGBT Democratic political organization to seek its endorsement,” the New York Times reports.

“It did not go particularly well.”

“In an interview with the Stonewall Democratic Club, Yang cited gay members of his staff as apparent evidence of his openness to the club’s concerns, and expressed enthusiasm about the prospect of visiting Cubbyhole, a storied New York lesbian bar… but failed to pay heed to more substantive issues like homelessness and housing.”

I’m sure some of his best friends are gay too.

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Andrew Yang Using Confidentiality Agreements

February 1, 2021 at 1:21 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Andrew Yang (D) “is making volunteers for his New York City mayoral campaign sign confidentiality contracts that threaten stiff legal repercussions for any violators—even though he put his name behind an effort to purge nondisclosure agreements from politics last year, the New York Daily News reports.

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Andrew Yang Hasn’t Been Living In New York City

January 11, 2021 at 1:45 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Andrew Yang, who is running for New York City mayor, acknowledged to the New York Times that he has not lived in the city for most of the year.

Said Yang: “We’ve spent more time upstate than in the city over the last number of months, but I also spent time in Georgia, as you know, I spent time in Pennsylvania campaigning for Joe and Kamala.”

He added: “We live in a two-bedroom apartment in Manhattan. And so, like, can you imagine trying to have two kids on virtual school in a two-bedroom apartment, and then trying to do work yourself?”

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Andrew Yang Feels Out Run for New York City Mayor

December 8, 2020 at 6:08 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Andrew Yang is calling elected officials to gauge support for a possible bid to become New York City’s next mayor, Politico reports.

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Andrew Yang Said to Be Considering Mayoral Bid

November 30, 2020 at 10:00 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Former presidential hopeful Andrew Yang, who advocated for a “universal basic income” during the Democratic primary, is now the subject of a poll that tests New York City voters’ appetites for a third-party candidate in the upcoming mayoral race,” Politico reports.

“The poll did not indicate it was being conducted on Yang’s behalf… but several questions focused on his potential candidacy — something his team said he was weighing as recently as last month. Others asked respondents to gauge a nameless candidate, whose description closely matched Yang’s profile.”

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Andrew Yang Joins CNN as Analyst

February 19, 2020 at 9:15 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Andrew Yang is joining CNN as a political commentator, CNN reports.

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Andrew Yang Staffers Furious Over Sudden Layoffs

February 11, 2020 at 9:50 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Business Insider: “His campaign began layoffs in the wake of his disastrous showing at the Iowa caucus, moves that the campaign characterized to Insider at the time as planned. But Yang’s staff said they were blindsided by the sudden staff cuts.”

“Many found out they something was amiss when they suddenly lost their email accounts and Slack messaging system. Others learned they’d lost their job via the rumor mill, only to receive formal letters much later.”

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Yang Raised $750K In 24 Hours

December 1, 2019 at 5:11 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Andrew Yang’s campaign told Politico that it had raised $750,000 on November 30 — from over 18,000 people — his single best fundraising day to date of his campaign.

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Yang’s Campaign Multiplies

November 2, 2019 at 11:10 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Politico: “Andrew Yang’s shoestring campaign staff has multiplied along with his fundraising, giving the unconventional businessman the trappings of a conventional, well-resourced presidential campaign in the months before the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary.l

“In the second quarter — from April to June — the campaign had under 20 staff members on its payroll, according to Yang’s Federal Election Commission filings. But a quarter later, it nearly quadrupled to include 73 staff members, as well as several experienced and well-respected strategists in Democratic politics.”

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450K Enter Yang’s Debate Raffle

September 16, 2019 at 8:28 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Andrew Yang’s surprising debate gambit — giving away $120,000 to 10 families over a year to highlight his universal basic income proposal — helped the outsider candidate raise $1 million in the 72 hours since the debate and collect more than 450,000 email addresses from people who entered the online raffle,” Politico reports.

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Yang Says He’d Beat Trump Because ‘He Is So Fat’

August 15, 2019 at 4:05 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang has declared that he could beat President Trump at any challenge—mental or physical—because the president “is so fat,” the Daily Beast reports.

Said Yang: “I challenge Donald Trump to any physical or mental feat under the sun. I mean, gosh, what could that guy beat me at, being a slob?”

He continued: “Like, what could Donald Trump possibly be better than me at? An eating contest? Like something that involved trying to keep something on the ground and having really large body mass? Like, if there was a hot-air balloon that was rising and you needed to try and keep it on the ground, he would be better than me at that? Because he is so fat.”

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Andrew Yang Qualifies for Next Debates

July 29, 2019 at 5:26 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

White House hopeful Andrew Yang announced Monday that he has reached the thresholds to qualify for the third and fourth Democratic primary debates, The Hill reports.

Candidates have to amass 130,000 unique donors and receive the support of at least 2% of respondents in four qualifying polls to appear in the third debate on Sept. 12 and Sept. 13.

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Andrew Yang Disillusioned After Debate

June 28, 2019 at 11:56 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Andrew Yang tweeted that this week’s presidential primary debate did not leave him “encouraged by our future.”

Said Yang: “I stood at the center of the political universe last night and did not come away encouraged by our future. Will do my best to change that.”

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Random Man Runs for President

June 11, 2019 at 1:35 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Washington Post: “Andrew Yang is the product of so many colliding forces in contemporary America that comparisons to anyone who came before him are kind of useless. Yang’s ascent from anonymity has been instantaneous in a way that can only exist in the age of social media… His staff credits podcasts for building Yang’s die-hard base almost overnight.”

“And the source of Yang’s relentless focus — universal basic income — is, at the moment, popular in future-minded circles that take cues from the likes of Pierre Omidyar, Richard Branson and Elon Musk. Yang’s campaign belongs to a mode of popular American discourse that did not exist 20, 10 or even five years ago: He is an emblem of the everyman thinkers of the Internet age.”

Filed Under: 2020 Campaign Tagged With: Andrew Yang

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