{"id":1021342,"date":"2021-11-16T22:14:23","date_gmt":"2021-11-17T03:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1021342"},"modified":"2021-11-16T22:14:25","modified_gmt":"2021-11-17T03:14:25","slug":"andrew-yang-media-fixation-on-race-impeded-my-2020-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/andrew-yang-media-fixation-on-race-impeded-my-2020-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrew Yang: Media &#039;Fixation on Race&#039; Impeded My 2020 Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fandrew-yang-media-fixation-on-race-impeded-my-2020-campaign%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1021342&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/andrew-yang-nov2019-point-getty-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Former Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang on Tuesday said the media\u2019s \u201cfixation on race\u201d in 2020 hurt him in his bid to be the party\u2019s nominee.<\/p>\n<p>Yang, who recently&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/10\/05\/andrew-yang-exits-the-democrat-party-no-longer-being-a-democrat-is-the-right-thing\/\">left<\/a> the Democratic Party, told Fox Business Network\u2019s \u201cCavuto: Coast to Coast\u201d that as an Asian-American candidate traveling around the country, he never \u201cfelt unwelcome.\u201d He said if he ever felt \u201csome kind of different treatment,\u201d it was from the national media.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI spent years campaigning in Iowa, Ohio, New Hampshire, other parts of the country, and I never felt the least bit unwelcome as a result of who I am, being Asian American, to the extent that I think that there was like some kind of different treatment, it was in the media. Truly,\u201d Yang told host Neil Cavuto.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI had thousands of interactions with Americans, and they were very, very open to my campaign. They were open to a different form of leadership. They saw in me a fairly regular person who just wanted to do right for them and their families to the extent there was a fixation on race that ended up being an impediment to my campaign, it was more likely to come from certain elements of the national media,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Trent Baker&nbsp;on Twitter&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MagnifiTrent\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@MagnifiTrent<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang on Tuesday said the media\u2019s \u201cfixation on race\u201d in 2020 hurt him in his bid to be the party\u2019s nominee. 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