The legacy media has repeatedly sounded the alarm over America's increasing political polarization,

while scenes of politically motivated violence have cropped up more and more in recent years.

Is America approaching a tipping point where the political system breaks down?

A new novel co-authored by American businessman and former Democratic presidential candidate Andrew

Yang explores that very question. In this episode we talked to Yang about his new book,

The Last Election, and why he thinks its explosive premise is frighteningly possible.

I'm Daily Wire, editor-in-chief John Bickley with Georgia Howell.

It's Saturday, September 16th, and this is an extra edition of Morningwater.

Joining us now is businessman, former Democratic presidential candidate, founder of the

Forward Party, and now novelist Andrew Yang. Andrew, thank you for joining us.

So you've co-authored a new novel titled The Last Election that follows the campaign of a third

party candidate who's extremely unorthodox, both sort of morally and politically,

and whose success could trigger the total breakdown of the electoral system in the US.

You and your co-author Stephen Marsh have described this book as obviously fiction,

but you've stressed that it is frighteningly possible. First, why did you set out to write this book

and why this premise? Well, thank you. I ran for president in 2020. I learned a lot. I now started

the Forward Party of learned a lot, and I wanted to lay down in narrative form a completely plausible

scenario that could lead us to a contingent election, not to give that much away, but there is

provision in the constitution that if you aren't sure who wins the electoral college or there's

not a majority, it actually gets thrown to Congress in a particular way. And I know folks who

are either running for president or have considered running for president, and some of the conversations

I had with them were, hey, this system, as it's currently designed, might lead us to not great results

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