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After the polls closed Tuesday in Mississippi, Missouri and Michigan and the trend towards victories for Joe Biden became evident, former Presidential candidate Andrew Yang officially endorsed Joe Biden as the best candidate to beat Donald Trump.
Biden built on his momentum by racking up wins in four of the six states having primaries Tuesday. The other two states, Idaho and Washington, were too close to call.
Yang, who voted for Sanders in 2016, gave his support to the more moderate Biden.
“I believe that Joe Biden will be the Democratic nominee, and I’ve always said I’m going to support whoever the nominee is. So I hereby am endorsing Joe Biden to be not just the nominee for the Democratic Party, but the next President of the United States,” Yang said on CNN where he is a political commentator.
“I say this having supported Bernie Sanders in 2016. Bernie was an inspiration for me, inspired my run. But the math says Joe is our prohibitive nominee. We need to bring the party together. We need to start working on defeating Donald Trump in the fall.”
Yang, who made his warnings of the "fourth industrial revolution" causing the loss of jobs part of the lexicon of the Democratic campaigns, said earlier that “The only person who has taken me aside and said that we need to worry about the fourth industrial revolution because it could potentially tear our country apart is Joe Biden.”
However, he cautioned Biden not to simply return to the Obama years.
“You can’t just say we’re gonna swing the pendulum back to the Obama/Biden years,” Yang said. “We have to actually start doing the work that activated people to vote for Donald Trump, that activated people to get out for Bernie Sanders. I believe Joe is open to that message.”
The New York-born entrepreneur said Biden shouldn't discount the supporters of progressive Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. The progressive wing of the Democratic Party should have a voice in a Biden administration.
Yang's endorsement of Biden follows similar announcements from former presidential candidates from Kamala Harris, Cory Booker, Pete Buttigieg, Amy Klobuchar and Beto O'Rourke, all of whom support the former Vice President.
Yang's endorsement of Biden follows similar announcements from former presidential candidates from Kamala Harris, Cory Booker, Pete Buttigieg, Amy Klobuchar and Beto O'Rourke, all of whom support the former Vice President.
“We have to defeat Donald Trump in order to make progress on the climate, on any of these problems, in a bigger way,” Yang said
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