-The opposite of Donald Trump is an Asian man who likes math.
You're allowed to laugh, we're not recording, right?
I was a skinny Asian kid growing up in upstate New York
in an all-white town, I got a lot of heat from classmates
about being the only Asian kid.
So I heard a lot of "chink," "gook." It certainly made me
wanna look out for the underdog.
I'm very proud of my own heritage. I'm proud of
the fact that I'm the first Asian-American man to run for
president as a Democrat.
But my identity is a very secondary or tertiary or
marginal aspect of my candidacy, and when I go to Americans
around the country they don't care what race I am, they
just care about my vision for the country and how we're going
to improve their lives and the lives of their family members.
This tribalism that's tearing our country apart,
it's related to a dysfunctional economy.
I'm running for president in 2020 and my job is to solve
the problems that got Donald Trump elected.
He won, in my opinion, because we'd automated away four
million manufacturing jobs in the swing states. And now, what
we did to the manufacturing jobs we're going to do to retail
and call centers and truck driving and the rest of it.
My flagship proposal of Freedom Dividend would put a $1,000 a
month in the hands of you and every American adult during the
age 18. Twelve thousand dollars a year. So this is what I call
the trickle up economy, and if you think the Freedom Dividend
is too good to be true, this has been with us since the
country's founding.
Thomas Paine was for it,
[he] called it the Citizen's Dividend.
Martin Luther King was for it, in 1967 he called it the
Guaranteed Minimum Income.
The Democratic Party wants to empower women. Instead of
talking about empowering women we should do something about it.
We know that there are millions of American women around the
country who are stuck in exploitative or abusive jobs or
relationships that would be improved simply by putting a
thousand dollars a month into their hands.
So that's the Freedom Dividend and there's nothing stopping a
majority of citizens in a democracy from declaring
ourselves a dividend. It will make us stronger, healthier, and
will help us all prepare for the economy of the
21st century.
-White nationalists are supporting you online, why do
you think they're drawn to your candidacy?
You know it's been a point of confusion, because I don't
look much like a white nationalist.
-[Laughter]
I think people, probably, can catch onto the fact that like,
you know, I'm the son of immigrants and the last thing I
have is a white nationalist agenda. I'd rather not have
their support. That said, we have to solve the problems for
all Americans and the fact that different types of people from
different points of the political spectrum are excited
about my campaign is something that I'm encouraged by because
if we're going to beat Donald Trump in 2020 we need to get not
just progressives and Democrats but also independents,
libertarians, conservatives and Trump voters.
We'd love to have you join the campaign. Our average donation
online is only $19. My fans are even cheaper than Bernie's.
This is a very very cheap gang to join. Go to Yang2020.com,
donate a few bucks and I'll see you at the debate stage, but
let's make this case for a human-centered economy, together.