On a recent swing through Iowa, Andrew Yang was moving through his stump speech, a string of stories and statistics that can sound like an economics seminar. “We have done the math,” he said, a nod to his campaign slogan Make America Think Harder, abbreviated on hats and pins as just MATH.
1 / 4Election 2020 Andrew YangDemocratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang speaks during a campaign event at To Share Brewing Co., Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2020, in Manchester, N.H. DAVENPORT, Iowa — On a recent swing through Iowa, Andrew Yang was moving through his stump speech, a string of stories and statistics that can sound like an economics seminar. There was talk of flawed indicators and his signature plan to give a monthly check to every American.
His campaign staff has grown from about 30 people last summer to over 300, most in early voting states, and he's hired some well-known political hands, including the ad team from Sen. Bernie Sanders’ 2016 campaign. He's paid for it all with strong online fundraising, raising more than $16 million in the final quarter of last year. That's more than all but the top four candidates in the race, including two senators and a former vice president.
Yang and his supporters complain that his campaign hasn't received as much media coverage as it deserves, a grievance aired enough to make #mediablackout trend on Twitter. This week a cable news station included him in a graphic showing recent fundraising totals — but mistakenly used a photo of Geoff Yang, founder of a Silicon Valley venture capital firm, rather than the candidate.
Yang said his goal in Iowa is to surprise people by being “on the leader board,” though he wouldn’t say what place he needs to finish in. He said there are “a lot of natural strengths” for his campaign in New Hampshire, where there are a large number of Libertarians, along with former Trump voters and progressives, whom he considers his voters.
Jerry Stoefen, who was a union plumber for 42 years and farms outside Tipton, attended Yang’s event there and said he was glad to see someone talking about the loss of manufacturing jobs. The 62-year-old said he has narrowed his choices to Yang, Sanders and Buttigieg.
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