Democratic candidate turned CNN contributor Andrew Yang has thrown his help behind occasion frontrunner Joe Biden, citing “the mathematics” after the previous vp was projected to win Michigan, however his followers aren’t completely satisfied.
“I at all times mentioned I used to be going to help the nominee…I hereby am endorsing Joe Biden,” Yang introduced on Tuesday evening on CNN. “The mathematics says Joe is our prohibitive nominee…I imagine he’s the precise man.”
Former Democratic presidential candidate and CNN political commentator Andrew Yang endorses Joe Biden: "The mathematics says Joe is our prohibitive nominee." #CNNelection https://t.co/6T4WPyE6yT pic.twitter.com/H7lYJaeKDF
— CNN (@CNN) March 11, 2020
Yang’s phrases might have echoed the occasion line at CNN, the cable information outlet he joined final month as a political commentator, however for a lot of of his supporters – the “Yang Gang” fan membership that fashioned across the outsider candidate whereas he was working – embracing the centrist Democrat was the final straw.
Omg! @AndrewYang you simply endorsed @JoeBiden and I’ve misplaced a lot respect for you. You declare to need actual change, humanity first!!! This seems to be such as you’ve been purchased out identical to there remainder of them.
— Dustin ? #Yang2020 (@live2bstrong) March 11, 2020
Andrew Yang is a sellout. Biden won’t ever push UBI. @AndrewYang will not be a person of the individuals. He's a only a silicon valley techbro who had no enterprise taking cash from his supporters.
— yellow vest america ? | Obi (@america_vest) March 11, 2020
Others saved their feelings in verify, merely declaring the place Yang had contradicted himself – promising solely to endorse candidate who backed his signature coverage of Common Primary Earnings, for instance.
"I hereby endorse Joe Biden" says @AndrewYang — "The map says Joe is our prohibitive nominee… I imagine he’s the precise man."
Yang beforehand: "If anybody desires my endorsement, all it’s a must to do is come out for common primary revenue."
fwiw: Biden doesn’t again UBI. pic.twitter.com/4qNdMXtqdX
— j.d. durkin (@jiveDurkey) March 11, 2020
lol Andrew Yang promised to solely endorse a candidate who obtained behind UBI and he simply endorsed Joe Biden. None of those individuals imagine in something.
— Eliot (@EliotETC) March 11, 2020
Even non-Yang-Gangers have been delay by the ex-candidate “going native” so shortly at CNN.
.@AndrewYang joins the lengthy line of Democratic candidates with no integrity. You simply misplaced me #YangGang. Sorry. https://t.co/wk950m2cZF
— Terrence McNulty ? (@TerrenceMcNulty) March 11, 2020
Andrew Yang has accomplished his transition to a complete sellout. #YangGang https://t.co/M3sKWKNpR2
— S✪lidⒶrity For☭ver ?? (@ComradeStars) March 11, 2020
Some Yang Gangers caught with their idol, nonetheless, interesting to “logic” and bracing for “SERIOUS hate from the Berners.”
#YangGang, large check for us. We and Yang are about to get some SERIOUS hate from the Berners. Keep #HumanityFirst and use the (appropriate) logic that this isn’t even something new—Andrew mentioned a 12 months in the past he’d help the Dem nominee and that’s Biden. It’s over and everybody is aware of it.
— Peak in 2024 ? (@gang4610) March 11, 2020
The actual fact is that Yang would have by no means made this assertion if there was a path to the presidency remaining for Sanders. At this level, Andrew Yang has completed the MATH, and Joe Biden is the presumptive nominee. https://t.co/xfyn7WjFHm
— bella donna ? (@rf_hypatia) March 11, 2020
And the blue-check Biden brigade embraced its latest member. One in every of us! One in every of us!
Thanks @AndrewYang on your management and help. #Biden2020 https://t.co/D3RT3t3rV3
— Debra Messing✍? (@DebraMessing) March 11, 2020
Thanks @AndrewYang for endorsing @JoeBiden. It’s time to unite and convey all of our voices and values to the Biden marketing campaign. This nation should transfer ahead and concentrate on eradicating the present occupant of the White Home and electing @JoeBiden President of the US.
— Fred Guttenberg (@fred_guttenberg) March 11, 2020
Biden’s Large Tuesday sweep solidified the lead he’d opened up on Tremendous Tuesday, leaving Sanders significantly within the mud with projected wins not simply in Michigan but in addition Mississippi and Missouri. With Sanders’ probability on the nomination seemingly receding into the space, one may say Yang was merely being pragmatic by switching his allegiance. Nonetheless, the ideological gulf between the 2 candidates – and Yang’s declare of getting supported Sanders in 2016 – made that rationalization a troublesome capsule to swallow.
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