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My Case for Andrew Yang
How the longer-than-longshot candidate made a name for himself
The people have finally heard the ‘longer-than-longshot’ candidate, as the New York Times put it, speak. CNN hosted the second Democratic presidential primary debates in which ten qualifying candidates participated each night. While the candidates on stage were attacking each other for various reasons, one in particular didn’t have a single one to throw at another. That candidate is entrepreneur Andrew Yang.
Isn’t this a bad thing though? Shouldn’t presidential candidates critique each other’s policies and ideas? While this is necessary in politics, the Democratic party embarrassed themselves in the way they carped at Joe Biden that night. At the beginning, they were pulling it off but it later appeared as more of a sort of premeditated collective effort to bring down the candidate polling higher than his critics. It became clear that the intended outcome wasn’t a success when post-debate polls came out that still had Biden leading by a significant margin.
On the contrary, Yang called out what he noticed the other candidates and moderators were turning the debate into during his closing statement: a reality TV show. He cited their obviously rehearsed attack lines as a prime example of this during the debate in Detroit. Yang does not tend to be an…
