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Andrew Yang 2020 presidential campaign
Campaign2020 United States presidential election (Democratic Party primaries)
CandidateAndrew Yang
AffiliationDemocratic Party
StatusAnnounced November 6, 2017
HeadquartersNew York City, New York
Slogan"Humanity First"
Website
www.yang2020.com

On November 6, 2017, American entrepreneur and Venture for America founder Andrew Yang filed with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) to run for president of the United States in 2020.[1] Yang is running as a Democrat.[2]

Campaign

Yang campaigning in New Hampshire in January 2018

Yang's candidacy began on November 6, 2017.[1] His campaign was initially called a "longshot" by many in the media, such as Fox News and Vox.[3][4][5][6] He is running on the slogan "Humanity First."[7]

In a press release on April 19, 2018, Andrew Yang announced that he would be personally giving one resident of New Hampshire $1,000/month in 2019 to show the effectiveness of his Universal Basic Income policy, the "Freedom Dividend."[2] He announced that he will be doing the same thing in Iowa in 2019.[8] On August 10, 2018, Yang was a keynote speaker at the largest Democratic fundraiser in Iowa, the Iowa Democratic Wing Ding.[9] In 2018, he made seven trips to Iowa and six trips to New Hampshire, the first two states to vote in the primaries.[10][11][12][13]

The Washington Post listed Yang as one of the many candidates for president in 2020.[14] In December 2018, Andrew Yang was included in the first polling by CNN of caucus voters in Iowa. 5% of respondents viewed him favorably, 12% viewed him unfavorably and 83% were not sure who he was. 28% of respondents said they could see supporting him. 0% of respondents named him as their first-choice while 1% as their second-choice candidate for the Democratic nomination.[15]

Initially viewed by many in the media as a longshot candidate with little chance of gaining significant traction, Yang's campaign began to increase in visibility in early 2019, as Yang appeared on noted outlets such as The Joe Rogan Experience and Tucker Carlson Tonight.[16][17] Several media sources have also attributed Yang's rise in notability to his large group of online supporters, who informally refer to themselves as the "Yang Gang" and have made a large number of memes about Yang and his campaign.[18][19] According to the media, Yang has a large following on /pol/, a forum on 4chan that is notorious for its alt-right politics.[20] Yang himself has denounced any support from the alt-right.[21] Yang has said “I’m getting support from quarters I wouldn’t have expected” regarding his internet support in a March 2019 interview with The New York Times; and regarding support from the alt-right in particular “It’s uncomfortable. They’re antithetical to everything I stand for.”[19]

On March 11, Yang announced on Twitter that he has surpassed the fundraising threshold of 65,000 donors, which qualifies him to participate in the first Democratic primary debate in June 2019[22] (subject to verification).[23]

Policies

Yang's platform is based around three major concepts: Universal Basic Income, Medicare for All, and "Human-Centered Capitalism." In total, 77 policies are listed on his campaign website.[24]

Climate change

Yang supports a Green New Deal and favors a reduction in carbon emissions with an emphasis on climate engineering. In addition to revitalizing the Environmental Protection Agency, his platform calls for a Global Geoengineering Institute to form inter-governmental partnerships. Yang is a proponent of a carbon tax and bringing the United States back into the Paris Climate Agreement.[25]

Corruption and bureaucracy

In a New York Times article about his campaign, several of Yang's policies about corruption and the federal bureaucracy are detailed, such as the creation of a "Department of the Attention Economy" that would focus on regulating the addictive nature of social media, the hiring of a White House Psychologist to focus on mental health issues, making Tax Day a national holiday, and, to stem corruption, increasing the salaries of federal regulators but limiting their private work after they leave public service.[26]

Economics

Yang's signature policy is a $1,000/month "Freedom Dividend" to all U.S. citizens over the age of 18, which is a form of Universal Basic Income, as well as other responses to hypothetical future mass unemployment from technological automation. His website states that "Every U.S. citizen over the age of 18 would receive $1,000 a month, regardless of income or employment status, free and clear." It does not give a cutoff date.[27][28] On the topic of whether the dividend should include the wealthiest citizens, Yang stated "You want to universalize it so it’s seen as a true right of citizenship, instead of a transfer from rich to poor."[29]

Yang has emphasized the need for a value added tax to combat tax avoidance by American technology companies.[30][31] Yang has condemned the deregulation of Wall Street and called for a ban on robocalls.[32][33] He also supports regulating social media as a public utility with a new cabinet position leading what he calls the Department of the Attention Economy.[28] One of Yang's ideas is a new type of credit system designed to incentivize traditionally unpaid caregiving contributions.[33] Yang has criticized several commonly cited economic metrics as misleading, for instance preferring labor force participation rate to unemployment rate.[31] On the topic of GDP, he has proposed that median income and life expectancy can more accurately measure the health of an economy.[28]

Healthcare

Support for single-payer healthcare has increasingly been cited as a core promise of Yang's campaign on the same level as the Freedom Dividend.[30] Yang believes that such an approach will make holistic and preventative care more feasible and his platform includes a number of such proposals including free marriage counseling.[31] He has stated that part of the doctor shortage can be attributed to inadequate investment in patient care technology.[34]

Yang says he opposes circumcision and that history will show the intactivist movement to have been right. However, he would not try to ban the procedure. He also said he thinks the decision should ultimately be up to the parents, including for cultural or religious reasons.[35][36]

Gun Safety

Yang's campaign website contains a detailed explanation of his gun safety plan, including the following parts: Promote a stringent, tiered licensing system for gun ownership with three tiers; restricting people with a history of violence, domestic abuse, or violent mental illness; grandfathering current gun owners and offering a one-time "Good Gun Owner" tax credit; prohibit the manufacture and sale of bump stocks, suppressors, incendiary/exploding ammunition, and grenade launcher attachments; implement a federal buyback program; invest in innovative technology that would make firearms harder to fire for non-owners of the gun, and create a federal, bipartisan panel to determine when technological innovations are advanced and reliable enough to be included in manufacturing safety requirements; increase funding to the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, and drastically increase funding to the US Department of Veterans Affairs Suicide Prevention efforts; initiate and fund mindfulness programs in schools and correctional facilities, which have been demonstrated to reduce violent behavior; and invest heavily in law enforcement training to de-escalate situations involving firearms.[37]

Historical significance

Yang is at least the fourth Asian American to run for President of the United States, after Hiram Fong, Patsy Mink, and Bobby Jindal.[38][39][40] If nominated, he would become the first Asian American to serve as any major party's presidential candidate, and if elected, he would become the first Asian American president.[41]

Endorsements

List of political endorsements
Individuals

References

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