{"id":744808,"date":"2021-09-12T15:21:24","date_gmt":"2021-09-12T19:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=744808"},"modified":"2021-09-12T15:21:27","modified_gmt":"2021-09-12T19:21:27","slug":"report-andrew-yang-democrat-who-endorsed-joe-biden-to-start-new-political-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-andrew-yang-democrat-who-endorsed-joe-biden-to-start-new-political-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Andrew Yang, Democrat Who Endorsed Joe Biden, To Start New Political 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\">26<\/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%2Freport-andrew-yang-democrat-who-endorsed-joe-biden-to-start-new-political-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=744808&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\/09\/Andrew-Yang.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>Andrew Yang, the businessman who ran for president in the 2020 Democratic primary before dropping out and endorsing former Vice President Joe Biden, reportedly no longer identifies as a Democrat and will be starting a new political party.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Yang, 46, plans to announce the start of his new party next month, according to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/09\/09\/andrew-yang-third-party-511033\"><span>POLITICO<\/span><\/a><span>, which spoke to two sources familiar with the matter. Business Insider, citing a source familiar with the plan, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/andrew-yang-third-party-confirmed-book-tour-2021-9\">reports<\/a> that the party will be aimed at centrists.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>It\u2019s unclear whether Yang has already left the Democratic Party \u2014 which he identified with during his rise to prominence \u2014 or what role he sees the new party playing in politics going forward.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The move will coincide with the launch of Yang\u2019s new book, \u201c<\/span><span>Forward: Notes on the Future of Our Democracy,\u201d which will be released on October 5, less than a month before the New York City mayoral election. Yang dropped out of the New York City race after finishing poorly in the Democratic Primary, in which he trailed several candidates.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>It\u2019s not clear what kind of platform Yang\u2019s political party will run on, or whether it will be focused on local races, national races, or something else. During the 2020 Democratic primary, however, Yang championed the idea of a Universal Basic Income of $1,000 a month for every American adult \u2014 a policy he dubbed the Freedom Dividend \u2014 to prepare against automation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cBy 2015, automation had already destroyed four million manufacturing jobs, and the smartest people in the world now predict that a third of all working Americans will lose their job to automation in the next 12 years,\u201d said Yang\u2019s campaign website. \u201cOur current policies are not equipped to handle this crisis. Even our most forward-thinking politicians are unprepared.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Yang dropped out of the primary after a disappointing showing in New Hampshire. The following month, he <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/03\/10\/politics\/andrew-yang-endorses-joe-biden\/index.html\"><span>endorsed<\/span><\/a><span> Biden for president, calling him \u201cthe right man for the job <\/span><span>to help us not just defeat Donald Trump, but govern the country in the years ahead,\u201d as CNN reported at the time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI believe that Joe Biden will be the Democratic nominee and I\u2019ve always said I\u2019m going to support whoever the nominee is,\u201d explained Yang after Biden had won Democratic primaries in several state contests. \u201cSo I hereby am endorsing Joe Biden to be not just the nominee for the Democratic Party but the next President of the United States.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Following his endorsement, Yang implied during an interview with <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/5860064\/andrew-yang-time100-talks\/\"><span>TIME Magazine<\/span><\/a><span> that he had engaged in discussions with the Biden team about serving in a potential administration.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWe\u2019ve had general conversations about the fact that Joe would like me to play a role and be helpful, yes,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m driven to help Joe win. And I think that we\u2019re going to need all hands on deck to help clean up the historic crises that [we\u2019re] in the midst of.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Yang ultimately did not end up serving in the Biden administration, and subsequently launched an unsuccessful bid in the New York City mayoral race\u2019s Democratic primary.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/span><\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Yang, the businessman who ran for president in the 2020 Democratic primary before dropping out and endorsing former Vice President Joe Biden, reportedly no longer identifies as a Democrat &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-744808","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\/744808","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=744808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744808\/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=744808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=744808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=744808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}