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Andrew Yang

Andrew Yang

Andrew Yang filed paperwork with the New York City Campaign Finance Board Dec. 23 which allows him to explore a bid for mayor in 2021. Yang is an entrepreneur and founder of Venture for America New York. Yang received a bachelor’s degree in economics from Brown University and a J.D. from Columbia Law School. In 2017, he announced he was running for the Democratic nomination for president and dropped out in February 2020.

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Andrew Yang
Andrew Yang
stated on January 23, 2020 a town hall in Muscatine, Iowa
"Right now 5% of Americans donate to candidates." 
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • January 24, 2020
Andrew Yang
Andrew Yang
stated on December 20, 2019 a Democratic presidential primary debate
"They banned face masks in Hong Kong. Why? Because they have AI technology that now is using facial recognition to identify protesters if they so much as do anything on the street, so they can follow up with them and detain them later."
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By Bill McCarthy • December 20, 2019
Andrew Yang
Andrew Yang
stated on December 19, 2019 comments during the December Democratic presidential primary debate.
"If you're a black woman, you're 320% more likely to die from complications in childbirth."
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By Shefali Luthra, Shefali Luthra, Victoria Knight • December 20, 2019
Andrew Yang
Andrew Yang
stated on October 22, 2019 an interview with The Washington Post
"I'm one of only two candidates in the field that 10% or more of Donald Trump voters say they would support in the general" election.
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • October 24, 2019
Andrew Yang
Andrew Yang
stated on September 21, 2019 Iowa Steak Fry speech
Says about universal basic income, "Thomas Paine was for it at our founding ... Martin Luther King, champion in the ‘60s, called it a guaranteed minimum income for all Americans… It passed the U.S. House of Representatives twice in 1971."
Mostly True
By Miriam Valverde • October 16, 2019
Andrew Yang
Andrew Yang
stated on September 4, 2019 a town hall
The Green New Deal "would do away with commercial air travel."
False
By John Kruzel • September 6, 2019
Andrew Yang
Andrew Yang
stated on March 22, 2019 an interview
"America’s life expectancy has declined for the last three years in a row, the first time in a hundred years, because of surges in suicides and drug overdoses."
Mostly True
April 3, 2019
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