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    Andrew Yang Is Dropping Out. Here’s Why.

    And here’s what he accomplished.
    by Edward-Isaac Dovere Feb 11, 2020 5 minutes
    Source: M. Scott Brauer / Redux

    KEENE, N.H.— Even after Donald Trump broke all the rules of politics, there shouldn’t have been room in this presidential race for Andrew Yang. Yet here he was yesterday, just before midnight on the last event of a six-event day, signing MATH hats with a silver marker, long after most of the other candidates were asleep. The event, at Keene State College, didn’t start until after 10:30 p.m. The Yang Gang had waited up for their guy.

    They didn't know it was the last time they'd be hearing from him in his capacity as a 2020 candidate.

    Before the Iowa caucus last week, Yang and his aides had held out hope that his poll numbers would translate into more votes than they actually did. When they didn’t, and when the votes didn’t seem to be there in New Hampshire either, they decided it was time to leave the race, as he

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