Ambassador to China Jon Huntsman, former Gov. Among the names being discussed as part of such a ticket include current Gov. No Labels, by contrast, has put its focus on the presidential bid, attempting to gain ballot access in enough states to win the presidency with a unity ticket campaign. The group, Yang said, was focusing its attention on local contests and races, hoping to affect national politics from the bottom up. Yang, who left the Democratic Party nearly two years ago to launch his third party outfit, was in town to promote his political novel “The Last Election.” The Forward Party is pushing ranked-choice voting and doing away with partisan primaries. “I mean, the field’s still coming together,” Yang said. When asked who he personally would vote for if he lived in one of those states, he refused to give a direct answer.
Yang also predicted Kennedy could pull a similar number of voters as West, and pointed out that presidential elections are decided by a few hundred thousand votes across a handful of swing states.
will likely jump to the Libertarian Party ticket out of frustration of not getting “a fair shake” from the Democrats in the primary. He expects Cornel West, who is running on a Green Party ticket to attract two to three percent of voters in 2024 - a larger vote share than Jill Stein attracted in 2016. He laid out a detailed scenario in which third-party candidates could hurt the president’s campaign. While openly against Trump, Yang also was bearish on Biden’s chances. “In a country of 330 million people, you would choose these two gentlemen at this stage? I mean, it makes zero sense.” “I mean, you’re talking about two guys whose combined age is 160,” Yang said (the two men will be a combined 159 years old on Election Day 2024).
He called the increasingly likely scenario “terribly unrepresentative and borderline ridiculous” and pointing to the advanced ages of both frontrunners. Yang stressed that he is an “anyone-but-Trump guy,” and that “I would not run for president, if I thought that my running would be counterproductive, or if it would increase the chances of someone like Donald Trump becoming president again.”ĭuring the 45-minute meeting, Yang railed against the prospect that the 2024 presidential election is shaping up to be a rematch between Trump and President Joe Biden. "There are candidates more aligned with social and racial justice values, with deeper commitments to APIA and BIPOC communities, whose mayoralty would actually benefit our communities, and they are not getting the attention they deserve.The centrist No Labels has been attacked by Democrats who fear the group will play spoiler in 2024 and end up electing Donald Trump. "In 2022, New York City needs a leader who can truly grapple with the complex racial and economic injustices and the needs of Asian and Pacific Islander New Yorkers in the pandemic's aftermath," the petition says. The group, which includes community leaders and local officials, also cited a report that Yang had said that the nonprofit fellowship program he started, Venture for America, might not be the best fit for Black applicants. The group cited his "pro-police" policies in the wake of calls for widespread reform and racial justice, his appearances on right-wing media and his Washington Post op-ed urging Asian Americans to show their " American-ness" during the Covid-19 pandemic. On Wednesday, more than 400 Asian Americans in New York City had signed a petition and launched a website, Asian and Pacific Islander New Yorkers Against Andrew Yang, opposing his campaign, arguing that "representation alone is simply not enough." It is not the only issue plaguing Yang's campaign. Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams was second, with 13 percent, followed by Stringer, at 11 percent, and Maya Wiley, former counsel to Mayor Bill de Blasio, in fourth, at 7 percent. A recent poll found that 22 percent of likely Democratic voters favored Yang.
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