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Somebody's Gotta Win with Tara Palmeri

Andrew Yang Has a Warning for RFK Jr. Voters

Somebody's Gotta Win with Tara Palmeri

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4.41.8K Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Tara is joined by 2020 Democratic candidate and current co-chair of the Forward Party, Andrew Yang, to discuss the viability and need for third parties in American politics. They examine Yang’s connections to RFK Jr., and offer advice to voters in swing states who are having reservations about the presidential choices this election cycle. For more of Tara's reporting, please sign up for her newsletter, ‘The Best and the Brightest,’ at puck.news/tarapalmeri and use the discount code TARA20 Host: Tara Palmeri Guest: Andrew Yang Producer: Chris Sutton Production Supervision: Conor Nevins Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, it's Brian Curtis from The Ringer, and I want to tell you about the Press Box podcast.

0:06.0

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0:17.6

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0:24.0

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0:27.5

Let us help you sort it out.

0:29.5

Join us on the press box. Hi, I'm Tara Palmary. I'm Puck Senior Political Correspondent, and this is Somebody's Gotta Win.

0:57.0

We've got a newsy show for you. Andrew Yang is on the line.

1:01.0

He ran for president back in 2020 and he had this universal basic

1:05.4

income platform, give every American a thousand dollars a month. Even at his own

1:09.8

Yang gang, it was sort of an internet movement, Andrew Yang. He then went on to run for

1:14.8

mayor of New York City in 2021 and at one point was the front runner. At that point

1:20.1

he ran as a Democrat. But now he's a voice for third parties. He started his own

1:25.0

third party called the forward party and he's calling for rank choice voting as a way to

1:29.0

disrupt the party system to keep extremists out of both parties that tend to win the primaries and

1:35.0

also to shake it up so that incumbents don't win election after election.

1:39.6

So it's not surprising that in this election he was courted by a third party, no labels,

1:44.7

and that RFK Jr. asked him to be his running mate.

1:47.4

In this episode he speaks out about it for the first time, giving us the details about how that

1:51.3

all went down.

1:52.4

But this is the interesting part, despite starting his own third. us the details about how that all went down.

1:52.6

But this is the interesting part.

1:54.1

Despite starting his own third party, he is warning voters against voting for a third party

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