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Andrew Yang

Founder, Forward Party · 1 appearance on the record.

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Andrew Yang gained national prominence during his 2020 U.S. presidential campaign and 2021 New York City mayoral bid, championing Universal Basic Income. A former CEO of Manhattan Prep and founder of Venture for America, he authored The War on Normal People before launching the Forward Party and Noble Mobile.

16statements → 12claims → 11claims resolved → 73%fully supported → 3.81/5average certainty → 2.25/5average debate potential → ≈4.0/5argument clarity, estimated →

8 supported 2 partly supported 1 contradicted 1 not checkable as stated how the 12 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

12 assertions · 2 opinions · 1 insight · 1 disclosure · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 12 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 11 are resolved, and 1 names no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Andrew argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Yang: 8 of 10 pro-impeachment House Republicans lost primaries
“Eight out of 10 of the House Republicans who voted to impeach Trump didn't make it [828] Andrew Yang: Yeah, back even through the primary.”
Andrew Yang Jan 11, 2023 ▶ 13:39 Andrew Yang Will Change How You Think About Politics · Joe Lonsdale

Their most notable contradicted claim

Assertion Contradicted
Yang: Two-thirds of young Americans do not identify with major parties
“Two-thirds of young people don't consider themselves either Republicans or Democrats.”
Andrew Yang Jan 11, 2023 ▶ 31:36 Andrew Yang Will Change How You Think About Politics · Joe Lonsdale

Expressed certainty vs assessment result

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weighted support: a fully supported claim counts one, a partly supported claim counts half. Each filled bar is clickable and opens exactly those claims; "none yet" means nothing said at that certainty level has resolved yet

How they sound: not measured why? →

We measure speaking style by listening to the audio itself, and a fair number needs at least 2,000 words from one person on tape we have measured. There is too little of Andrew Yang on measured tape to publish a rate. This says nothing about how they speak.

Everything Andrew Yang said on American Optimist that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Opinion
Yang: Republicans have 'crazy uncle' and Democrats 'schoolmarm' energy
“Historically Republicans have been to the daddy party, Democrats have been to the mommy party but the Republicans have kind of taken on this, like, crazy uncle energy... And the Democrats have become kind of the overbearing schoolmarm energy.”
Andrew Yang Jan 11, 2023 ▶ 28:58 Andrew Yang Will Change How You Think About Politics · Joe Lonsdale
Opinion
Yang: Trump's 2016 Victory Resulted From Manufacturing Job Automation
“So I marched around the country for six years trying to help entrepreneurs and startups and growth companies in Detroit, Cleveland, Birmingham, New Orleans and so I saw the aftermath of the automation of manufacturing jobs and then Trump wins in 2016, so I thi…”
Andrew Yang Jan 11, 2023 ▶ 6:24 Andrew Yang Will Change How You Think About Politics · Joe Lonsdale
Assertion Supported
Yang: 8 of 10 pro-impeachment House Republicans lost primaries
“Eight out of 10 of the House Republicans who voted to impeach Trump didn't make it [828] Andrew Yang: Yeah, back even through the primary.”
Andrew Yang Jan 11, 2023 ▶ 13:39 Andrew Yang Will Change How You Think About Politics · Joe Lonsdale
Assertion Partly supported
Yang: 2021 Child Tax Credit lifted about three million children from poverty
“A 174 economists signed a letter saying we should keep the enhanced child tax credit that got passed as part of COVID relief in twenty-twenty-one. It brought something like three million kids out of poverty.”
Andrew Yang Jan 11, 2023 ▶ 22:21 Andrew Yang Will Change How You Think About Politics · Joe Lonsdale
Assertion Supported
Yang: Out-of-school factors determine majority of student academic performance
“Turns out that a majority of the kids' performance is determined by out of school factors anyway. By things like stress levels in the house and nutrition and the rest of it.”
Andrew Yang Jan 11, 2023 ▶ 23:46 Andrew Yang Will Change How You Think About Politics · Joe Lonsdale
Assertion Supported
Yang: NYC spent around $5,000 monthly per homeless person
“We were spending maybe 5000 a month per homeless person here in New York City. And then you look at it and be like, wait a minute, that's more than rent for a studio apartment.”
Andrew Yang Jan 11, 2023 ▶ 25:17 Andrew Yang Will Change How You Think About Politics · Joe Lonsdale
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Yang: Witnessed a Walgreens robbery during a one-day visit to San Francisco
“A Walgreens got robbed right in front of me. It was one of those things where you can't even just draw it up. Like I was, and I was in town for like a day. I walk into Walgreens, dude just, you know, runs out with a bag full of stuff”
Andrew Yang Jan 11, 2023 ▶ 27:44 Andrew Yang Will Change How You Think About Politics · Joe Lonsdale
Insight
Yang: Political reform cannot happen from within the existing system
“And that's why I started forward is because there's no way to make it happen from within the system. Like the system will defend the system. And so if you want to reform the system, you have to come outside of it”
Andrew Yang Jan 11, 2023 ▶ 30:49 Andrew Yang Will Change How You Think About Politics · Joe Lonsdale
Assertion Supported
Yang: 90% of US congressional districts are uncompetitive
“90% of the congressional districts around the country are drawn to be either blue or red and are uncompetitive in general.”
Andrew Yang Jan 11, 2023 ▶ 10:19 Andrew Yang Will Change How You Think About Politics · Joe Lonsdale
Assertion Supported
Yang: Men make up only 40% of US college students
“You know that men are only 40% of college students now?”
Andrew Yang Jan 11, 2023 ▶ 19:37 Andrew Yang Will Change How You Think About Politics · Joe Lonsdale
Assertion Partly supported
Yang: 80% of top graduates went to six industries in six cities
“And it was literally 80% of the intellectual products from these institutions were gonna go to one of these six places and do one of these six things.”
Andrew Yang Jan 11, 2023 ▶ 26:27 Andrew Yang Will Change How You Think About Politics · Joe Lonsdale
Assertion Supported
Yang: Nevada passed ranked-choice voting despite opposition from both parties
“In things like getting rid of party primaries and switching to nonpartisan primaries and ranked choice voting, which passed in Nevada, despite the fact that both political parties came out against it.”
Andrew Yang Jan 11, 2023 ▶ 29:51 Andrew Yang Will Change How You Think About Politics · Joe Lonsdale
Assertion Contradicted
Yang: Two-thirds of young Americans do not identify with major parties
“Two-thirds of young people don't consider themselves either Republicans or Democrats.”
Andrew Yang Jan 11, 2023 ▶ 31:36 Andrew Yang Will Change How You Think About Politics · Joe Lonsdale
Assertion Supported
Yang: Only 900,000 people voted in the deciding NYC mayoral primary
“900,000 people voted in the Democratic primary that essentially decided who won. The population of New York City is around nine million.”
Andrew Yang Jan 11, 2023 ▶ 15:35 Andrew Yang Will Change How You Think About Politics · Joe Lonsdale
Disclosure
Yang: Original goal was elevating another political figure, not running himself
“One of my goals was help elevate a national political figure. Because my thinking was, if I can find someone who'd do the right things in office, then they can do them, and I don't have to. And it was not on my list to actually ever run for office myself.”
Andrew Yang Jan 11, 2023 ▶ 4:15 Andrew Yang Will Change How You Think About Politics · Joe Lonsdale
Assertion Supported
Yang: Congressional incumbents have a 94% reelection rate
“Again, you have a 94% reelect, right? You can be a piece of furniture as long as you play the game.”
Andrew Yang Jan 11, 2023 ▶ 18:43 Andrew Yang Will Change How You Think About Politics · Joe Lonsdale

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
Andrew Yang Will Change How You Think About Politics · Joe Lonsdale Jan 11, 2023 20m
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