Andrew Yang. Photo courtesy of The New York Post.
This is it. It's officially over for Andrew Yang and his Prez campaign. According to sources from CNN, Yang suspends his campaign, or should I said got booted off out of the President campaign camp, due to the poor results from the Iowa primary with only 1% support as well as the more recently New Hampshire primary. He said the following:
"Tonight I am suspending my campaign for president. While there is great work left to be done, you know I am the math guy, and it is clear tonight from the numbers that we are not going to win this race."
-Andrew Yang, 2020 Presidential Candidate
Ok well let's talk about his history briefly. He was born in 1975 in Schenectady, New York near the state capital of Albany. During his High School years, he ran for Student government and lost three times. THREE times and he never won student government.
More recently according to CNN leading up to his campaign, he used to run a law firm, shortly became a CEO for a test prep company, and then started up a non-profit company to help recent college grads start-up their own gig under the name of Venture America. More notably, he also did a podcast a NON-POLITICAL podcast with comedian and host of Fear Factor Joe Rogan.
Overall, throughout his experiences from High school and his past business experiences, it totally makes ZERO sense for him to run for presidency due to his lack of experience in politics. Heck, even I thought majoring in political science wasn't a good fit for me!
So I don't get why he would start his presidential campaign in 2017. He raised so much money over the last 3 years for his campaign, spent so much money on television commercial convincing him he will be the first Asian-American president to run for The White House. He even had a group supporting Andrew Yang called the Yangsters devoted to him. The end result? Not a lot of support from the nation itself.
Yang's campaign reminds me of Donald Trump running for president, he ran for president at least twice before running for president for the third time and actually becoming one. Let's be honest here. From my point of view, Donald Trump is a good businessman with a real estate background, but has no political experience running the office. Because of that, it caused a little bit of a ruckus with news media, fake news, and the impeachment trial, mainly for the sole purpose of becoming a famous celebrity in Washington. He did made the economy much better though, creating more jobs for the nation and Dow Jones and Nasdaq went up significantly, despite the stock crashes on certain days.
Donald Trump. Photo Courtesy of Deadline.
The only reason he became president is mainly due to how popular he is, how much of a rich man he is, and because of the TV show "The Apprentice."
Yang on the other hand, isn't really that popular. But it really doesn't matter if he is a democrat or not, because of the lack of political experience, he would probably do the same thing Trump would be doing nowadays. Creating more jobs for young people (though I would love it to be honest) and being clueless on how to run a country properly from a view of a Businessman. Both of them should've became senators or governors of a certain state (New York) before they ran for president.
That is like crazy. Imagine putting this on your resume to become president. What makes him want to run for president? If I wanted to run for a president from a point o a CEO running a company, running the entire country isn't the same as running a business, because running the country requires passing laws to make people more safe, make roads and transportation services more reliable, in addition to a growing economy.
Running a business is different. They need profit to survive, need good labor, and need positive reviews and feedback from the customers and their own employees. If I wanted to run for president, I would try to run for a low-level government position and eventually move up to a higher one. Running for president takes time to get there, even if you have no experience, and there is no way for someone like Yang and Trump to become president.
Later this year, I will give you tricks on how to vote for the right president (even though everyone's opinion would be completely different.)
Update: The 2020 presidential vote will be discontinued do to feature issues. I will have a new discussion board/poll about the 2020 presidential candidates tomorrow.
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