{"id":1576768,"date":"2022-07-28T13:56:12","date_gmt":"2022-07-28T17:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1576768"},"modified":"2022-07-28T13:56:17","modified_gmt":"2022-07-28T17:56:17","slug":"yang-gang-2-0-former-gop-officials-join-up-with-dems-to-form-new-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/yang-gang-2-0-former-gop-officials-join-up-with-dems-to-form-new-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Yang Gang 2.0: Former GOP Officials Join Up With Dems To Form New Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/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%2Fyang-gang-2-0-former-gop-officials-join-up-with-dems-to-form-new-party%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=1576768&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\/2022\/07\/yangang-scaled-e1659026345644.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Andrew Yang announced a merger between his Forward Party and two political organizations led by former officials from across the political spectrum late Wednesday in the hopes of creating a viable national alternative to the Republican and Democratic parties.<\/p>\n<p>Yang\u2019s Forward Party has advocated for centrist and nonpartisan positions like ranked-choice voting, nonpartisan primaries and independent redistricting commissions, according to the party\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forwardparty.com\/platform\">website<\/a>. The Forward Party is now absorbing the Renew America Movement (RAM) and Serve America Movement (SAM), which Yang notes in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.andrewyang.com\/blog\/huge-news-re-the-forward-party?utm_source=newsletter&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosam&#038;stream=top\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">press release<\/a> will immediately make it the biggest third party in the country by staff and resources.<\/p>\n<p>RAM was founded in 2021 by former officials from every Republican administration dating back to Reagan, while SAM includes Democrats, Republicans and independents, Reuters <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/exclusive-former-republicans-democrats-form-new-third-us-political-party-2022-07-27\/?utm_source=newsletter&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosam&#038;stream=top\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a>. Alongside Yang, the new Forward Party will be co-chaired by Christine Todd Whitman, a former Republican governor of New Jersey, according to Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>Yang ran for President as a Democrat in 2020, but <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/10\/04\/andrew-yang-democrat-independent-third-party\/\">left the party<\/a> in October 2021 to be able to be \u201cmore honest about both the system and the people in it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Just about everyone wants a third party. Let\u2019s build it together. \u2b06\ufe0f\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lwkpC4FxLp\">pic.twitter.com\/lwkpC4FxLp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Andrew Yang\ud83e\udde2\u2b06\ufe0f\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@AndrewYang) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AndrewYang\/status\/1552484111628922880?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 28, 2022<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The party will work to counteract the gridlock and hyper-partisanship in Washington, D.C., according to a Forward Party <a href=\"https:\/\/secureservercdn.net\/45.40.150.54\/fvl.bd9.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/FWDTOGETHER_Announcementpdf.pdf\">press release.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis will be a political home for the majority of Americans who want to move past the era of divisiveness and do-nothing politicians \u2013 so that our government starts working again,\u201d the release said, adding that the party will conduct a national tour in fall 2022 and host its first national convention in summer 2023. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/07\/14\/donald-trump-hint-2024-plans\/\">(RELATED: \u2018Made That Decision\u2019: Donald Trump Drops Another Hint About His 2024 Plans)\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cDuring my travels, I\u2019ve met other leaders and organizers who recognize both the perilous state democracy is in and the opportunity for a new kind of politics,\u201d Yang wrote in his press release. \u201cAfter hundreds of hours of meetings and conversations, we realized that we could do more together than we could apart.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">We come from every corner of the political spectrum and we disagree on plenty, but the people of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/samforus?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@samforus<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RenewAmerica?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@RenewAmerica<\/a> &#038; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Fwd_Party?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Fwd_Party<\/a> share a common belief.<\/p>\n<p>We feel it in our bones: good people, working together, can save this country and build a brighter future.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Will Conway (@heywillconway) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/heywillconway\/status\/1552468188515942400?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 28, 2022<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Forward Party is already on the ballot in several states, and hopes to be an option for voters in 15 states by the end of 2022, 30 states by the end of 2023 and all 50 by the end of 2024, Yang\u2019s press release noted.<\/p>\n<p>Third parties have historically struggled to find traction in U.S. politics but Forward Party members are confident that they can buck that trend, Reuters reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__large__nEccO body__base__22dCE body__large_body__FV5_X article-body__element__2p5pI\" data-testid=\"paragraph-14\">\u201cThe fundamentals have changed. When other third party movements have emerged in the past it\u2019s largely been inside a system where the American people aren\u2019t asking for an alternative. The difference here is we are seeing an historic number of Americans saying they want one,\u201d Miles Taylor, a former Homeland Security official in the Trump administration now working with Forward, told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>Representatives of the Forward Party did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation\u2019s request for comment. The Republican National Committee and Democratic National Committee also did not respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Yang announced a merger between his Forward Party and two political organizations led by former officials from across the political spectrum late Wednesday in the hopes of creating a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":979,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1576768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1576768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/979"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1576768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1576768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1576768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1576768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1576768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}