Too bad Andrew Yang didn't make the debate

https://heavy.com/news/2020/01/where-is-andrew-yang-debate/

Yang met the fundraising goal but not the poll requirements. He hit 5 percent in two polls out of the four that he needed.

Yang had even filed a request in late December for the DNC to commission more polls before the January debate, USA Today reported. There were fewer qualifying polls this time around because of the holidays. Yang had said that the debate should include more early state polls before the deadline of January 10, citing that it had been more than a month since polls for some early-voting states were released. He said not adding extra polls would cut down on the diversity on the debate stage. The DNC denied this request.

Yang then commissioned his own polls using the same companies that the Democratic Party used, The Hill reported. Those polls, said Nick Ryan, Yang’s campaign chief, showed him at 5% in both Nevada and New Hampshire.

“The unbiased feedback showed that Andrew Yang is on the rise and at 5% in Nevada and New Hampshire,” the email said.

“The issues that will decide this election, and the future of our country, are too important to ignore for the sake of staged political bickering. The DNC tried to run this same play in 2016 and they paid for it with a loss in the general,” Ryan said.


Even though he had the least amount of given talk time and how DNC wants to secretly bury him, would be nice to have him be there for the 7th debate in Iowa a day ago. He's ticked all the marks except these so-called polling numbers (yeah, we know how that turned out in 2016).

I noticed some as like with Bernie supporters, it's their candidate or bust aka they rather not vote for someone else. In the end we'll either get the same situation in 2016 (literally no opposition on Trump's side this time so there is no divide among voters) or more people just not voting at all since they're being screwed again by the DNC.