![]() ![]() On November 6, 2017, Yang filed with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) to run for President of the United States in 2020. In March 2017, Yang stepped down from his position as CEO of VFA, but continued to advise startups aligned to his signature policy of universal basic income throughout his presidential campaign. Polling conducted by Business Insider in the fall of 2019 found that Yang had the highest net satisfaction rate among undecided 2020 general election voters, and a November 2019 College Pulse poll found that Yang had the highest crossover support among college students of any candidate in the 2020 race, with 18% of Republican college students saying they would support Yang over Trump in the general election. Trump." This approach was exemplified by one of Yang's campaign slogans: "Not Left, Not Right, Forward." According to a July 2019 YouGov poll, Yang was one of two 2020 Democratic candidates, along with Senator Bernie Sanders, with double-digit support among voters who voted for Trump in 2016. According to The New York Times, Yang was known for doing interviews with conservative news outlets, and "although tweets often, he almost never tweets about Mr. Yang's campaign focused largely on policy, in what Reuters described as a "technocratic approach." Yang regularly called Donald Trump a symptom of a wider problem in the economy, rather than the problem itself. He then attended Columbia Law School, earning a Juris Doctor in 1999. He enrolled at Brown University, where he majored in economics and political science, and graduated in 1996. national debate team and competed at the world championships in London. Yang has claimed that he was part of the 1992 U.S. Yang later attended Phillips Exeter Academy, an elite boarding school in New Hampshire. ![]() In The War on Normal People (2018), he wrote, "Perhaps as a result, I've always taken pride in relating to the underdog or little guy or gal." When Yang was 12 years old, he scored a 1220 out of 1600 on the SAT, qualifying him to attend the Center for Talented Youth-a summer program for gifted kids run by Johns Hopkins University-which he attended for the next five summers. Yang was one of the few children of East-Asian descent in his hometown, and he later described being bullied and called racial slurs by classmates while attending public school, in part because he was one of the smaller kids in his class after skipping a grade. ![]() Yang grew up in Westchester County, New York, first in Somers, then in Katonah. ![]()
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