Andrew Yang 2020 campaign megathread

[MR DARK BRANDON]

Is anyone else sick of other topics, including polls, getting merged into megathreads where the overlapping conversations become incomprehensible?

I am!

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

1. Absolutely not, he is a flip flopper on immigration and border security, along with being a very weak debater. If he ever rises to some prominence, he’d be skewered by attack ads of which he’ll have no effective counterattacks.
2. Andrew Yang needs to get middle class liberals to like him, effectively the base of the Democratic Party, while polling well with African Americans and Latinos. The issue is that he has no credentials to sway any group apart from millennial coders and edgy youth looking for a grand. Most likely he’ll be pulling from Elizabeth Warren and Biden.
3. He would lose badly. Again, the man has no ability to excite people, nor is he an effective debater. Expect a Trump landslide unless he works his chops off.

1. Fair point on flip-flopping, but he’s not as shameless as Biden and if he can match his rivals in fundraising (I doubt it) then I think he could get effective counterpunches on the airwaves. Yang has always emphasized that he is a candidate who “listens” as much as talks, so I’m sure he’s smart enough to pull a “I have evolved after seeing the matter first hand” type excuse out of his ass. I think he could hold his weight here.

2. Yang could cut into the middle class liberals as Biden collapses and Bernie/Warren drift left. The main obstacle here is Mayor Pete. Yang isn’t well known enough or politically established enough to have broad support from outside his “base” but he could easily place second to Biden among minority voters if the final four is Biden/Warren/Pete/Yang. All Yang really needs to do is be the last one standing against Warren somehow, which is very, very, very unlikely....at least this time.

3. I think he wins, personally. He addresses the realities that got Trump elected in an understanding way rather than blaming the moral characters of the voters themselves. That’s a big deal. That’s the reason why the best Democratic candidates are Warren/Yang/Bernie and not the Biden/Booker/Kamala types. Yang may seem like a milquetoast candidate in comparison to Trump, but who else are they going to vote for if Trump is so offensive to them.

[eric82oslo]

There are 14 states voting on Super Tuesday next year, as well as Democrats Abroad and American Samoa.

This was the YouTube search ranking of Yang searches during the past week in those 14 crucial states (among the top 5 candidates in YouTube searches right now, which are Yang, Biden, Gabbard, Sanders & Buttigieg):

1. Minnesota: 39%
2. California: 36%
3. Texas: 28%
4. Massachusetts: 27%
5. Virginia: 26%
6. North Carolina: 26%
7. Oklahoma: 25%
8. Arkansas: 24%
9. Colorado: 22%
9. Vermont: 22%
11. Tennessee: 20%
12. Utah: 19%
13. Maine: 12%
14. Alabama: 12%

Minnesota and California have consistently been super strong for Yang for months now, at least when it comes to YouTube searches.

[Arizona Iced Tea]

There are 14 states voting on Super Tuesday next year, as well as Democrats Abroad and American Samoa.

This was the YouTube search ranking of Yang searches during the past week in those 14 crucial states (among the top 5 candidates in YouTube searches right now, which are Yang, Biden, Gabbard, Sanders & Buttigieg):

1. Minnesota: 39%
2. California: 36%
3. Texas: 28%
4. Massachusetts: 27%
5. Virginia: 26%
6. North Carolina: 26%
7. Oklahoma: 25%
8. Arkansas: 24%
9. Colorado: 22%
9. Vermont: 22%
11. Tennessee: 20%
12. Utah: 19%
13. Maine: 12%
14. Alabama: 12%

Minnesota and California have consistently been super strong for Yang for months now, at least when it comes to YouTube searches.

It would be kind of cool if MN went for Yang like it did for Rubio in 2016

[Suburbia]

He's right about automation.

[Frozen Sky Ever Why]

He's right about automation.

But his fix won't solve the problem, or any other problem really. UBI is a joke without price controls.

[Suburbia]

He could be a Vp choice.

[Crumpets]

So, I have a distant friend who was a Carly Fiorina supporter in 2016. After Fiorina dropped out, she switched to Cruz. After Cruz dropped out, she switched to Clinton. It now appears she has joined the Yang Gang. Can anyone makes heads or tails as to what the common thread is here? I have a theory, but I'm curious if anyone else can find something.

Also, lol at this thread not getting any posts since December 3rd, and yet people still think Yang is a top-tier candidate.

[MR DARK BRANDON]

So, I have a distant friend who was a Carly Fiorina supporter in 2016. After Fiorina dropped out, she switched to Cruz. After Cruz dropped out, she switched to Clinton. It now appears she has joined the Yang Gang. Can anyone makes heads or tails as to what the common thread is here? I have a theory, but I'm curious if anyone else can find something.

Also, lol at this thread not getting any posts since December 3rd, and yet people still think Yang is a top-tier candidate.

That’s because he is.

[John Dule]

Also, lol at this thread not getting any posts since December 3rd, and yet people still think Yang is a top-tier candidate.

So Atlas mods decide not to pin Yang's thread, and then you use the lack of activity on said thread as evidence that nobody cares about his candidacy? Seems like a self-fulfilling prophecy to me.

[MR DARK BRANDON]

Also, lol at this thread not getting any posts since December 3rd, and yet people still think Yang is a top-tier candidate.

So Atlas mods decide not to pin Yang's thread, and then you use the lack of activity on said thread as evidence that nobody cares about his candidacy? Seems like a self-fulfilling prophecy to me.

[Warren 4 Secretary of Everything]

Also, lol at this thread not getting any posts since December 3rd, and yet people still think Yang is a top-tier candidate.

So Atlas mods decide not to pin Yang's thread, and then you use the lack of activity on said thread as evidence that nobody cares about his candidacy? Seems like a self-fulfilling prophecy to me.

The mods haven’t pinned Klobuchar’s thread either and she’s still gotten fairly consistent posts.

[Illiniwek]

https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/1220814449751351297?s=20

Yang is 100% right. With how many debates there are, why wouldn't you want to give the people who only watch Fox News at least one opportunity to hear straight from the candidates' mouth? Yes, its only a small part of the viewership that could begin to be swayed by a Democratic candidate's arguments, but that very well could be worth it.

[John Dule]

Yang has earned the most important endorsement of the cycle.

[MR DARK BRANDON]

Yang has earned the most important endorsement of the cycle.

Amazing news!!! 😃

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

Makes sense. Yang embodies the “politics of love” - whatever the hell that is.

[Crumpets]

Per Politico, Yang is reportedly firing dozens of staff members following his poor showing in Iowa.

[Tender Branson]

... soon ?

Andrew Yang lays off dozens of campaign staffers.

https://www.axios.com/andrew-yang-iowa-campaign-staff-layoffs-473bd130-f32f-4aec-940b-c26fd6e032b5.html

[TrendsareUsuallyReal]

Your headlines are getting really old and it’s a wonde ryou haven’t been banned from the 2020 threads yet

[W]

misleading title OP but yea cannot say I'm surprised.

[Tender Branson]

WASHINGTON — The presidential campaign of Andrew Yang, the insurgent Democratic presidential contender, laid off 130 staffers on Wednesday night, several former staffers say, including on-the-ground canvassers and organizers who’d been working for months to prepare for upcoming primary elections in New Hampshire and South Carolina.

Several newly fired staffers tell Rolling Stone they felt blindsided by the announcement. They say they had their campaign email accounts disabled and then were notified they were fired without any warning or explanation.

The campaign would not confirm the exact number of employees fired. Yang campaign manager Zach Graumann said in a statement that the firings were part of the “natural evolution” of the Yang campaign after the Iowa caucuses, in which Yang finished outside of the top tier of candidates. The Yang campaign would not explain why it fired employees in New Hampshire and South Carolina, which have yet to vote.

[President Johnson]

Don't give eric82oslo a heartattack with such headlines...

[Penn_Quaker_Girl]

"You Won't BELIEVE What This Senator Said Next!"

[Grassroots]

Screw you Tender

[Torrain]

These layoffs are pretty major. This is the kind of story that is written 72 hours before a candidate drops out.

quote]Among those dismissed were the national political and policy directors of the campaign, as well as the deputy national political director — all senior-level positions. The people who were fired worked across Yang’s organization, from his headquarters in New York to the now-disbanded Iowa operation.[/quote]

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/06/yang-fires-dozens-of-staffers-after-iowa-debacle-111611

I'm expecting him to drop out on election night in NH. It lets him bow out after the voters have spoken, and the story gets swept away in the chaos of that night, when the narrative of the primary shifts, and we likely lose multiple candidates.