Andrew Yang’s NYC Exit Caps Tumble From Front-Runner to Also-Ran
- Gaffes about subways, comments about mentally ill hurt him
- Yang conceded before many other candidates who did worse
Andrew Yang
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Andrew Yang was the first of 13 Democratic candidates to drop out of the New York City mayoral race, even though nine of his rivals fared far worse. The speedy exit punctuated the former presidential candidate’s remarkable fall from his early front-runner status.
“I’m conceding this race,” he said Tuesday night at his campaign’s party. “I’m a numbers guy. I’m someone who traffics in what happens in the numbers, and I am not going to be New York City mayor.”