{"id":846297,"date":"2021-10-04T18:29:09","date_gmt":"2021-10-04T22:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=846297"},"modified":"2021-10-04T18:29:11","modified_gmt":"2021-10-04T22:29:11","slug":"andrew-yang-says-he-has-left-democratic-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/andrew-yang-says-he-has-left-democratic-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrew Yang Says He Has Left Democratic 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\">16<\/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-says-he-has-left-democratic-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=846297&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\/10\/GettyImages-1319812087.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Andrew Yang said Monday that he has left the Democratic Party and is now officially an Independent.<\/p>\n<p>The technology entrepreneur, who launched a longshot bid for the Democratic presidential nomination and later ran unsuccessfully for New York City mayor, published a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.andrewyang.com\/blog\/breaking-up-with-the-democratic-party\">blog post<\/a> on Monday saying he is \u201cbreaking up\u201d with the Democratic Party.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI changed my voting registration from \u2018Democrat\u2019 to \u2018Independent\u2019 today. It was a strangely emotional experience,\u201d Yang wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Despite a lifetime of being a Democrat and voting Democrat as well as still having many friends deeply involved in the party, Yang said, \u201cI\u2019m confident that no longer being a Democrat is the right thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo why do I feel in my heart that this is the right move?\u201d Yang said. \u201cWhile it was simply a small piece of paperwork, I genuinely felt a shift in my mindset as soon as I signed it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yang cited the country\u2019s increasing \u201cpolarization\u201d as one of his reasons for distancing himself from the party, saying he is \u201cmore comfortable trying to fix the system than being a part of it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy goal is to do as much as I can to advance our society. There are phenomenal public servants doing great work every day \u2013 but our system is stuck. It is stuck in part because polarization is getting worse than ever,\u201d Yang wrote. \u201cMany of the people I know are doing all of the good they can \u2013 but their impact is constrained. Now that I\u2019m not a member of one party or another, I feel like I can be even more honest about both the system and the people in it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yang said that he originally registered as a Democrat in 1995 when he was 20 to vote for Bill Clinton\u2019s re-election and remained a \u201cstaunch Democrat\u201d throughout his 20s.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a no-brainer for me. I went to a college that was very liberal. I lived in New York City. Everyone around me was a Democrat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen Trump won, I was surprised and took it as a red flag and call to action. Having spent six years working in the Midwest and the South I believed I had some insight as to what had driven Trump\u2019s victory. I spent several years making the case for what I believed was the major policy that could address it \u2013 Universal Basic Income,\u201d Yang wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Yang\u2019s \u201cFreedom Dividend,\u201d a universal basic income (UBI) of $1,000 a month to every U.S. adult, was the policy that catapulted him into the public eye during the 2020 Democratic primaries.<\/p>\n<p>Yang suspended his presidential campaign in February last year after the New Hampshire primary and joined CNN as a political commentator. Earlier this year, he ran in the Democratic primary for New York City mayor, leading the polls in the race\u2019s early days but conceding after early results showed him trailing Eric Adams.<\/p>\n<p>Yang said Monday that he sees open primaries and ranked-choice voting as \u201ckey reforms\u201d to allowing voters more choice in elections.<\/p>\n<p>He added that on a \u201cpersonal level\u201d he feels he and the Democratic Party have always been \u201csomething of an odd fit,\u201d describing himself as more \u201cpractical\u201d than \u201cideological.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class>\u201cMaking partisan arguments \u2013 particularly expressing what I often see as performative sentiment \u2013 is sometimes uncomfortable for me. I often think, \u2018Okay, what can we actually do to solve the problem?\u2019 I\u2019m pretty sure there are others who feel the same way I do,\u201d Yang wrote.<\/p>\n<p class>\u201cI\u2019ve seen politicians publicly eviscerate each other and then act collegial or friendly backstage a few minutes later. A lot of it is theatre,\u201d Yang warned.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe I can reach people who are outside the system more effectively. I feel more . . . independent,\u201d Yang wrote.<\/p>\n<p><i>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&nbsp;<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i>member<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Yang said Monday that he has left the Democratic Party and is now officially an Independent.The technology entrepreneur, who launched a longshot bid for the Democratic presidential nomination and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-846297","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\/846297","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=846297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846297\/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=846297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=846297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=846297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}