{"id":846360,"date":"2021-10-04T18:44:03","date_gmt":"2021-10-04T22:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=846360"},"modified":"2021-10-04T18:44:05","modified_gmt":"2021-10-04T22:44:05","slug":"minority-voter-abandons-democrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/minority-voter-abandons-democrats\/","title":{"rendered":"Minority Voter Abandons Democrats"},"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\">8<\/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%2Fminority-voter-abandons-democrats%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=846360&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 readability=\"29.966101694915\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/\">Politics<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Andrew Yang, subject of liberal media discrimination, registers as &#8216;Independent&#8217;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"736\" height=\"491\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1323381578-736x491-1.jpg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1323381578-e1624455752496.jpg 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1323381578-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1323381578-768x512.jpg 768w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tGetty\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/andrew-stiles\/\" title=\"Posts by Andrew Stiles\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Andrew Stiles<\/a> \u2022 October 4, 2021 6:30 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"65.247538293217\">\n<p>Another minority voter has abandoned the Democratic Party.<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Yang,&nbsp;the Asian-American entrepreneur and unapologetic nerd who ran unsuccessfully for president and mayor of New York City, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.andrewyang.com\/blog\/breaking-up-with-the-democratic-party\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced<\/a> Monday that he has changed his voter registration from &#8220;Democrat&#8221; to &#8220;Independent&#8221; in what he described as a &#8220;strangely emotional experience.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Yang, a lifelong Democrat, was&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/satire\/democratic-racism-yang\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shunned<\/a>&nbsp;by his party&#8217;s voters (most likely due to anti-Asian bigotry) and systematically <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/andrew-yang-erasure\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ignored<\/a> by members of the liberal media during his runs for office.&nbsp;&#8220;I&#8217;m confident that no longer being a Democrat is the right thing,&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;I believe I can have a greater impact this way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Being a Democrat was &#8220;something of an odd fit,&#8221; Yang explained. &#8220;I&#8217;m not very ideological. I&#8217;m practical. Making partisan arguments\u2014particularly expressing what I often see as performative sentiment\u2014is sometimes uncomfortable for me.&#8221; He went on to denounce the &#8220;theater&#8221; of political campaigns, in which otherwise friendly opponents must attack each other &#8220;for appearances.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s true that Yang&#8217;s liberal opponents (including journalists) launched some absurd attacks against the son of immigrants. For example, he was denounced for promoting &#8220;bro culture&#8221; and accused of offending a group of LGBTQ activists after describing them as &#8220;human and beautiful.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In what may or may not have been a related move, Democrats in Congress <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/satire\/anti-asian-democrats\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">blocked<\/a> legislation earlier this year that would have denied federal funding to universities that discriminated against Asian-American students. Before that, one of President Joe Biden&#8217;s first acts as president was to <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/justice-dept-abandons-admissions-discrimination-lawsuit-against-yale\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">drop<\/a> a Trump-era lawsuit against Yale University for unlawful discrimination against Asian-American applicants, who were not classified as a &#8220;preferred racial group.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politics Andrew Yang, subject of liberal media discrimination, registers as &#8216;Independent&#8217;  Getty  Andrew Stiles \u2022 October 4, 2021 6:30 pm Another minority voter &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"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-846360","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\/846360","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=846360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846360\/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=846360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=846360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=846360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}