HAPPENING NOW — Hundreds of people are marching in Uvalde, TX are marching in 106 degree heat to demand answers. Chants of “save our kids” and signs calling for Chief Arredondo to be fired are filling the streets. Families of the victims are joined by people from all over Texas.
Dave Chappelle says why he is supporting
@AndrewYang
.
“I don’t look at Trump supporters as my enemy at all. I understand why people voted for Trump I understand people are desperate. And I think that Andrew is right you run against the reasons that Trump got elected.”
— PERSONAL NEWS — excited to announce I’m
@ABC
’s first Immigration reporter/producer. As a journalist who happens to be undocumented, I’m so humbled to be trusted to help lead our network’s coverage of the complexities of immigrant communities across the globe. Gracias 🙏🏼
.
@AndrewYang
: I had student loan debt for years myself. I used to call it my mistress, because it was like a family in another town. I was like ‘I hope Sallie Mae is having a good life’
(He then turned to Evelyn Yang, assured her he’s been faithful, and gave her a kiss).
Not a lot of standing room for
@AndrewYang
’s first event of the weekend so he’s standing on the counter. He’ll make 16 more stops throughout southeast Iowa through Monday evening.
Andrew Yang has spent most of the first 43 minutes of the 10 hour
#AskAndrew
Q&A marathon talking about raising a child with autism and resources that should be available for people with special needs. He says human value shouldn’t be measured by economic contributions.
I’m behind the scenes at the start of
@AndrewYang
’s 10 hour Q&A marathon. Yang has a bag full of snacks right next to him. It’s going to be a long day.
#AskAndrew
Dave Chappelle, now an
@AndrewYang
surrogate, told me he was unprepared to talk about the use of racial stereotypes in a humorous context, as Yang has been criticized for doing. He eventually got to it, here's his answer:
The bell at
@HowardU
, VP
@KamalaHarris
’ alma mater is ringing 49 times as she’s sworn in as the 49th Vice President of the United States. It will be followed by “Lift Every Voice and Sing”, the Black national anthem.
Rev. Telley Lynnette Gadson prayed over
@KamalaHarris
in Greer, SC asking Jesus to give her guidance every step of the way. The last time she prayed for a presidential candidate, she said, was for then Sen. Barack Obama.
.
@AndrewYang
says one of the questions he asked himself that pushed him to run for president was “why do I feel so sh***y about what’s going on in the country?”
I asked
@LtGovTX
if he was concerned, that by using similar words to the El Paso shooter, his words might inspire the next attack on Hispanics and migrants.
“That’s a silly question…that was a crazy individual who was a despicable human being..”
Evelyn Yang says that as First Lady she’d draw upon her own experience of having a child with special needs and make it her focus to advocate for other families to get “the same resources that we are lucky enough to have.”
The Yang campaign has confirmed to
@ABC
that due to a “bureaucratic paperwork issue” Ohio’s Secretary of State’s office has denied
@AndrewYang
’s application to be on the primary ballot. His team will instead launch a write-in campaign in order to get him to appear on the ballot.
Here’s part of my interview with
@AndrewYang
in Davenport, IA. Follow the link to watch me throw a gutter ball on camera, and hear what Yang has to say about impeachment and
@PeteButtigieg
’s call for more financial transparency in the Dem field.
.
@AndrewYang
told a crowd in Adel, IA, that anyone who thinks they know what’s going to happen in the coming election is “full of sh*t”.
Someone from the crowd yelled, “unless they say you’re going to win!”
“Yeah that’s right,” he joked. “Then they’re very wise.”
I don’t blame my fellow journalists for not knowing this if it’s their first time to the border, but I can’t express enough how crucial it is to ask for permission before filming a migrant’s face or sharing their name. Think of the dangers they have fled and the challenges ahead.
A huge sigh of relief from the hundreds of thousands of DACA recipients all across this country. DACA lives. But their lives are still in limbo as a pathway to citizenship becomes ever so distant.
Kamala's Kitchen: We talk Thanksgiving dinner, the road ahead in the final stretch before the Iowa caucuses, and what
@KamalaHarris
is most grateful for this holiday season.
@ABC
@ABCPolitics
@ABCNewsLive
A press secretary for the campaign tells me
@AndrewYang
is standing with labor and will not cross the picket line, even if it means missing the debate next week. If the issue gets resolved or a new venue is chosen, they will participate in the debate as planned.
I won’t cross the
@UniteHere11
picket line to attend next week’s debate. We must live our values and there is nothing more core to the Democratic Party than the fight for working people. I support
@UniteHere11
in their fight for the compensation and benefits they deserve.
Mayor
@PeteButtigieg
is participating in the Free & Fair Elections phone bank, a
@staceyabrams
initiative. He’s sending out texts to hard to reach voters all over Georgia. Other candidates are expected to stop by today.
The
#BetOnYang
rally is about to start in Las Vegas, NV.
@AndrewYang
will then be speaking at the 1st in the West Forum with several other 2020 candidates in attendance.
NEW -- An immigration attorney tells me two migrants had to be rushed to get immediate medical attention when they stepped off the plane in Martha's Vineyard. One had an ankle issue. The other was beaten so badly on his journey from Venezuela, all of his teeth were ripped out.
I asked
@AndrewYang
what his message is to supporters who’ve been vocal about their frustration with the DNC and the mainstream media as he failed to qualify for tomorrow’s debate. He said he shares their frustration + slammed
@DNC
for not showing “flexibility” or “rationality”
NEW
@CNN
/
@UofNH
New Hampshire Poll with net change since October:
Bernie Sanders 25% (+4)
Joe Biden 16% (+1)
Mayor Pete Buttigieg 15% (0)
Elizabeth Warren 12% (-6)
Amy Klobuchar 6% (+1)
Tulsi Gabbard 5% (0)
Andrew Yang 5% (0)
#nhpolitics
#FITN
🔗
Bernie Sanders supporter Karla and her mom became legal residents 4 yrs ago and will be citizens by the time the 2020 election comes around: "We’ll be using that privilege to give a voice to people who don’t have a voice especially other undocumented immigrants."
#BernieInIowa
Sen. Bernie Sanders is live, remotely joining striking McDonald's workers as they fight for a $15 minimum wage and the right to unionize
"If elected president, trust me, every worker in this country will make at least $15 an hour, and people will have the right to join unions."
#FightFor15
workers are LIVE with
@BernieSanders
at the
@McDonalds
shareholder meeting in Dallas.
We're ON STRIKE Today to demand McDonald's pay us $15 an hour and respect our union rights!
WATCH:
@LtGovTX
The
@LtGovTX
also told me that if federal agents cut the razor wire along the Rio Grande, the state will patch it right up.
He also claimed the state has secured the border in this area and questioned why Border Patrol would want access to Shelby Park.
SCOTUS has handed a victory to the Biden administration, allowing them to end "Remain in Mexico." POTUS has now struck down 2 of 3 Trump-era immigration policies:
✅MPP
✅Family separation
❌Title 42
The
#YangGang
was outside of the SNHU arena spinning a giant $1000 bill with
@AndrewYang
’s face on it.
Yang spoke at the New Hampshire Democratic Party Convention earlier today.
Sen.
@KamalaHarris
pauses to take a photo with her fellow Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority sisters. She is scheduled to speak at the St. Joseph AME Church in Durham, NC in a few moments.
.
@AndrewYang
says he found therapy beneficial as an “angsty” high schooler. He says everyone should have someone to speak to and that there should be a psychologist in the White House.
Evelyn Yang's story should remind us journalists the importance of trauma-informed reporting. Important to think about how our words impact, and potentially trigger, victims of sexual assault. Let's do the least amount of harm while reporting the truth.
Andrew and Evelyn Yang are phone banking and texting voters. Someone was skeptical that it was actually
@AndrewYang
texting them and asked if he was “fo real.” Yang replied YAASSS.
I recently had the honor of donating bone marrow to a young cancer patient whom I hope to meet one day. This has been one of the most fulfilling experiences of my life.
There’s 123 voters in the room which means that 19 are needed for a candidate to reach viability. Most are aligning with
@BernieSanders
on this first count.
Two Cuban migrants HANG GLIDED into Key West International Airport today,
@mcsonews
says.
Chris Ferrara got this cell phone video right before they landed.
📸: Chris Ferrara “DatGuy in Paradise”
HAPPENING NOW — Hundreds of people are marching in Uvalde, TX are marching in 106 degree heat to demand answers. Chants of “save our kids” and signs calling for Chief Arredondo to be fired are filling the streets. Families of the victims are joined by people from all over Texas.
@AndrewYang
Yang joked that it was "very Beto of me" to be standing on the counter, but noted he's friends with him and that it wasn't a dig at the former congressman and presidential candidate.
"I'm friends with Beto, I just spoke to him last week that was not a dig. Not a dig.��
Even after 5 people were brutally killed in Cleveland, TX, Gov. Abbott has described the victims (including an 8 yr old) using a term that is widely considered dehumanizing. Not sure what purpose disclosing their immigration status serves here.
EXCLUSIVE -- Parents of 8-year-old Anadith, who died in Border Patrol custody in May spoke to us for the first time since burying their daughter. We're learning so much about Anadith's final moments. Watch Here:
After a Town Hall in Mason City, IA,
@AndrewYang
told reporters that most Americans “regard impeachment like a ballgame where you know what the score is going to be.” He says people need to be focused on beating Donald Trump at the ballot box.
.
@AndrewYang
says his team has fundraised “more than twice” the amount of $$$ in Q3 than in Q2.
“We have four months to change the course of history,” he said at his Des Moines office opening.
.
@AndrewYang
pitches his Freedom Dividend ($1k a month) as part of a solution to ease the stress on parents dealing with high costs of childcare and without paid family leave.
#DemocraticDebate
"He (Dylann Roof) murdered nine people while they were worshiping and then a couple of hours later, he was apprehended by police without incident,"
@JulianCastro
said. “But it made me think then what about Eric Garner? And what about Philando Castile?"
Shot hoops and got “loose” with
@AndrewYang
today, (note his
@HoustonRockets
shorts).
We talked debate prep and basketball. He said he’d like to challenge POTUS to a one-on-one but that he’d “probably pass out at some point”.
As
@GregAbbott_TX
prepares to sign SB 4,
@JoaquinCastrotx
and members of the CHC will be sending a letter asking the DOJ to intervene. The law allows officers to arrest migrants suspected of crossing into TX illegally from Mex, and for judges to order migrants to return.
JUST IN:
@AndrewYang
raised $10 million in the third quarter, that's more than triple the amount raised in Q2 ($2.8 million). From September 24 - September 30 alone they raised just over $2 million.
During the
#BetOnYang
rally
@AndrewYang
acknowledges the need to restrict access to firearms for some, but says the Saugus shooting would not have been prevented by background checks. He says we need to seek out the root of the problems within families, homes, and schools.
In an interview on CBS This Morning,
@AndrewYang
says he wouldn't consider running as a third party candidate if he does not become the nominee. "My job is to help get Donald Trump at office and I would do nothing that would increase the odds of him sticking around."
Mayor Pete Buttigieg on the Mueller testimony:
“We’ll see what the testimony reveals, but there’s more than enough in that report to interpret it as an impeachment referral...I’m focusing on the best thing that I can do about the Trump presidency which is to defeat him...”
Sen.
@KamalaHarris
on the latest whistleblower news: “My background is as a prosecutor and I’m going to tell you something. I can recognize a confession when I see one.”
A heckler interrupted Howard Schultz during a book event tonight...
“Don’t help elect Trump, you egotistical billionaire a**hole. Go back to getting ratioed on Twitter. Go back to Davos with the other billionaire elite who think they know the world.“
DACA recipients in the medical field are fighting two emergencies: the pandemic and the fear of deportation. I got to speak with some of those on the frontlines, here's what they said.
Sen. Kamala Harris has launched "Spanish Camp Kamala" an online program designed to connect with and mobilize Hispanic voters in their own language, her team has announced.
Sen.
@KamalaHarris
is returning to TSU for the debate tonight. She launched her plan to increase teacher salaries in March here and is in a county that dons her name: Harris County. "This is Harris County!" claimed yellow and purple posters in the crowd.
The snow did not stop the hundreds of people who are lined up down the block to see
@BernieSanders
speak. There’s a reggae band playing now, to amp up the crowd. As more people funnel in through the gates of Brooklyn College.
"There is zero truth to it. I'm happy to say, I've had so many phenomenal women leaders that have elevated me and my organizations at every phase of my career, and if I was that kind of person I would never have had any success,” Yang said on “The View.”
Sen.
@amyklobuchar
touts getting the Quad-City Times endorsement at a town hall in Marion, IA. The NY Times is also expected to endorse a presidential candidate today.
“I said well you know what, the New York Times only covers one city, the
@qctimes
covers four!”
Yang: "The candidate that no one saw coming just beat out a dozen or more senators, governors, Congress people to make that debate stage. And I will say I am proud to be the only person of color who’s going to be on that stage next week. That is the will of the people."
I had the honor of donating bone marrow to a young Leukemia patient recently. I met the incredible Alfredo, a 9-year-old who desperately needs to find his match. Please read and watch our story.
@MedStarGUH
@BeTheMatch
Text SaveAlfredo to 61474
I’ve spent months covering the
@AndrewYang
campaign but here’s my favorite moment:
I spoke to a 17 y.o. right after Andrew and
@EvelynYang
(they have an autistic son) hosted a town hall about autism in Iowa City in December. He had recently been diagnosed with autism himself...