South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa and India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi shake hands ahead of the G20 Leaders' Summit Sept. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.).ĭon’t be surprised if Andrew Yang’s name is added to this list.Īs always, we’ll be watching to see how this all shakes out. Ambassador to China Jon Huntsman, former Gov. Among the names being discussed as part of such a ticket include current Gov. No Labels, which did not respond to POLITICO’s request for comment on meeting with Yang, is prepping a potential third-party presidential unity ticket campaign. “In a country of 330 million people, you would choose these two gentlemen at this stage? I mean, it makes zero sense.” (President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump will be a combined 159 years old on Election Day 2024.) “I mean, you’re talking about two guys whose combined age is 160,” Yang said. Yang, 48, used the bulk of his conversation with POLITICO to underscore how “terribly unrepresentative and borderline ridiculous” it is that the 2024 race appears to be a rematch of two frontrunners in their advanced years of life. Yang presents a powerpoint presentation Jan 14, 2020, at a campaign stop in Aimes, Iowa. is operating on is set to be deeply problematic.” “When you talk folks who are deep into technology, they particularly feel like the multidecade tape delay that D.C. “I think that there are a lot of digital natives who are particularly dissatisfied with a two-party system, because they don’t see government understanding or addressing AI,” Yang said. That, he argues, is yet another reason why our current political system does not work. He remains critical of Washington’s tepid response to the looming dangers of fast-moving technology, which will further upend the American economy. Like many politicians who once commanded the attention of avid political reporters, Yang appears eager to avoid being written off as some has-been scrambling to hold on to his waning 15 minutes of fame. In a POLITICO op-ed last month, Mary Anna Mancuso, who served as national press secretary for the Forward party, described a hollowness of the new party which Yang serves as co-chair. “But I mean, if my choices were Trump and Vivek, yeah, I’d support Vivek, sure.” ![]() “Though I did watch the last debate, I have not been digging into the platforms of various candidates,” said Yang, who was dressed in a navy-colored suit with a white FWD pin promoting his nonpartisan Forward Party on his left lapel. Its platform includes advocating for ranked-choice voting and doing away with partisan primaries. Yang, who announced his formal break from the Democratic Party nearly two years ago, now serves as co-chair of the nonpartisan organization Forward Party, which launched last year. “I’ve had conversations with various folks who are associated with No Labels,” Yang said during the 45-minute interview, dodging one of the many attempts - by my count, eight specific times - to pin him down on whether or not the group had specifically approached him about running. In a meeting with reporters and editors at POLITICO’s Rosslyn, Va., headquarters Monday afternoon, the 2020 presidential hopeful and one-time frontrunner in the New York mayoral election hinted that he has not ruled out a third-party presidential bid with the centrist outfit No Labels. ![]() First, though, a focus on the next act in the political life of Andrew Yang.įormer presidential candidate and ex-Democrat Andrew Yang, who famously campaigned on a MATH platform - an acronym that stood for Make America Think Again - is, if nothing else, a tireless calculator. ![]() What up, Recast family! Congress is back in session as lawmakers face a looming end-of-the-month deadline to avoid a government shutdown, the bitter dispute over Dianne Fienstein’s family finances heads to court-ordered mediation and questions arise over why the Biden administration has yet to name a book ban coordinator. POLITICO illustration/Photo by Getty Images for The Asian American Foundation
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