A Neuroscientist Runs for Congress
Andrew Yang Podcast
Andrew Yang & Audacy
4.8 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 20 April 2026
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of the Andrew Yang Podcast, Sam Wang joins Andrew to talk about fixing American democracy. A Princeton neuroscientist and electoral reform researcher, Sam has spent 20 years applying math and data to the problems plaguing our elections, and has now decided to run for Congress himself in New Jersey's 12th district. They dig into what the research shows about open primaries, ranked-choice voting, and gerrymandering reform, and why Sam thinks this race is winnable.
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| 0:49.2 | And it's always been me combining math and law to try to help people have more say, whether it be in court cases, |
| 0:56.0 | or whether it be by passing voter initiatives, whatever it might be. And I realized that it wasn't |
| 1:01.2 | enough, it was going too slowly, because I got to say the last year and a half has been a real, you know... |
| 1:06.2 | A mess. A mess. A mess. And so I decided I was time to take all that energy |
| 1:11.1 | and put it into running directly for office. |
| 1:23.6 | You are not seeing double. |
| 1:25.6 | It is my pleasure to welcome to the podcast, neuroscientist, Princeton professor, and congressional candidate for New Jersey's 12th district, someone I've known for quite a while. Sam Wang, welcome, Sam. |
| 1:39.3 | Hey, Andrew. Thank you for having me. So you and I have known each other because you're an academic who runs an electoral |
| 1:47.1 | innovation center at Princeton. |
| 1:48.6 | And you at some point said, you know what? |
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