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- Former Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang kicked off the final night of the Democratic national convention with a warning that the longterm problems he focused his campaign on have barreled toward the present.
- "You might know me as the guy who ran for President talking about MATH and the future," Yang said. "Unfortunately for all of us, that future is now. The pandemic has accelerated everything."
- "We are in a deep, dark hole, and we need leaders who will help dig us out."
- Yang's longshot campaign was one of the 2020 primary's biggest surprises, taking him from a virtual unknown to a lead speaker on the convention's biggest night.
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Andrew Yang, the tech entrepreneur who surprisingly emerged from the crowded 2020 field by introducing universal basic income to the party conversation, kicked off the Democratic National Convention's final night as its lead speaker.
Yang warned that the distant and often dystopic issues he focused his campaign on have quickly caught up to the present.
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