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    Increasingly desperate second-tier Democratic hopefuls scramble to keep presidential bids going

    by Evan Halper, Los Angeles Times Jul 25, 2019 5 minutes

    WASHINGTON - Andrew Yang has never muscled a bill through Congress, or even gaveled in a local city council meeting. But the entrepreneur vying for the Democratic presidential nomination is adept at social media, and for many candidates desperate to stay in the race, that's what matters right now.

    Yang and his disparate coalition of techies, progressives, libertarians, Trump devotees, Twitter trolls, and anti-circumcision crusaders have leveraged their aptitude for viral moments to deliver something that makes many better-known rivals envious: 130,000 donors.

    That, along with 2% standing in polls, constitutes the threshold a candidate must cross to stay on the Democratic debate stage past next week's event in Detroit.

    So far, former Vice President Joe Biden; Sens. Kamala Harris of California, Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts; South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg and former Rep. Beto O'Rourke of Texas

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