(Yang turned down Bloomberg’s team’s counteroffer: He’d invest the money only if he won the White House.) Bloomberg’s team even considered Yang’s offer to back Bloomberg in exchange for the ex-mayor putting $1 billion into a universal-basic-income pilot program. Flattering as it was, Yang said, “the thought of running against Bill de Blasio at that point seemed frankly unrealistic because I did not have, like, a great deal of name recognition.” As I report in my new book, Battle for the Soul, several aides on Michael Bloomberg’s presidential campaign tried to get Yang to endorse Bloomberg by saying they could help Yang with a mayoral campaign. A friend had urged him to run for mayor in 2017, when the current officeholder, Bill de Blasio, was unpopular heading into reelection but didn’t have a challenger. I asked Yang if he’d be doing this well in the polls if not for his presidential campaign, which got a lot of attention but, in the end, only a few thousand votes.
Yang is the first celebrity candidate who’s famous for being a celebrity candidate, a sort of political Kardashian. But Yang is part of every discussion, and in first or second place in nearly every poll so far.
ANDREW YANG MAYOR FULL
It’s arriving just as New Yorkers are starting to emerge from the pandemic, full of uncertainty about the city’s future. The race has been a special brew of post-Trump celebrity campaigning, racial politics, and progressive infighting. New York City’s municipal government is the biggest and most complicated one in the country, and the mayor has more unilateral power and a higher profile than nearly anyone else who doesn’t have access to nuclear codes. The city’s famously incompetent Board of Elections will be administering the election and trying to figure out the results. The polls have been all over the place, and how well the vote-counting will work is uncertain: New York is making its first-ever attempt at ranked-choice voting (each voter will be able to rank up to five choices), giving even the stragglers a sense that they may be able to pull out a win. But no one has any clue who that winner will be. The winner will likely be the next mayor of this deep-blue city. New York’s Democratic mayoral primary is less than a month away. “It’s hard to defeat Snapple for everyone,” Yang joked when my former opponent and I recounted the story as the three of us sat down for dinner recently in Manhattan. These days, that other candidate is the campaign manager for Andrew Yang, whose mayoral bid is inspiring more New Yorkers than anyone would have guessed-and driving everyone else crazy. Snapple was huge in the late ’90s, and this was the kind of rich private school where not having a chance to pay more for a drink with lunch was the biggest problem most of the student body faced. I had staked my electoral hopes on witty posters, but a lot of my classmates gravitated toward a new kid with a simple promise: putting a Snapple machine in the cafeteria. I was running for student-council president at the fancy prep school on the Upper East Side of Manhattan that I attended on scholarship. In 2013, New York State Senator John Liu was a candidate for mayor of New York City, in lieu of running for re-election as Comptroller.S pring of junior year was my last time on the ballot. Morgan executive Arthur Chang is also planning to run. Yang, an American entrepreneur and philanthropist, would be only the second Asian-American candidate to run for mayor and appear on the ballot. He has also said he will not attempt to actively raise money until he makes a decision. Senate runoff in Georgia, on which Yang is currently focused. The move, a procedural step that allows him to begin raising money for a possible candidacy, was confirmed by both the Campaign Finance Board and a Yang campaign source.Ĭampaigns generally stress that this step is not the announcement that a candidate is running, and our sister station WABC in New York has been told Yang still hasn't definitively decided if he will run.ĪLSO READ | Max Rose files paperwork for possible run at NYC mayorĪny announcement would not come until after the U.S. NEW YORK - Former Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang has filed paperwork with New York City's Campaign Finance Board, indicating he has formed a mayoral campaign committee and is exploring a run.
Andrew Yang discusses having Americans be paid for their data usage and explores how the Black Lives Matter movement and coronavirus impact universal basic income and permanent stimulus checks.
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