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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.”
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…”
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.”
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.”
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.”
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.”
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”
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”
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.”
Yang: Men make up only 40% of US college students
“You know that men are only 40% of college students now?”
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.”
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.”
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.”
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.”
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.”