After his campaign ended, Yang joined CNN as a political commentator, announced the creation of the political nonprofit organization Humanity Forward, and ran in the 2021 New York City Democratic mayoral primary. Yang suspended his campaign on February 11, 2020, shortly after the New Hampshire primary. His supporters, informally known as the " Yang Gang", included several high-profile celebrities.
Yang qualified for and participated in seven of the first eight Democratic debates.
News outlets described Yang as the most surprising candidate of the 2020 election cycle, going from a relative unknown to a major competitor in the race. Yang has been credited with popularizing the idea of universal basic income through his candidacy and activism. His signature policy was a universal basic income (UBI) of $1,000 a month as a response to job displacement by automation. Yang became a prominent candidate in the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries. He attended Brown University and Columbia Law School. The son of Taiwanese immigrants, Yang was born and raised in New York. He is the co-chair of the Forward Party, alongside former New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman. Yang was a candidate in the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries and the 2021 New York City Democratic mayoral primary. Andrew Yang (born January 13, 1975) is an American businessman, attorney, lobbyist, and politician.
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