The Life & Times Of Andrew Yang | The Daily Show With Trevor Noah

With a million Democrats left in the race, all the candidates are struggling to get media attention. But there's one candidate who's struggling more than most, Andrew Yang. Andrew Yang, he has not been a media darling, he hasn't gotten a ton of press and coverage. Andrew Yang, who's got a huge following online, but not necessarily in the broader television electorate. Andrew Yang, he's getting ignored for some weird reason. Andrew Yang was the person that spoke the least during last night's debate. He didn't even get questioned for the first 30 minutes of the debate, and then he ended up speaking just six minutes and 53 seconds overall. Wow. In a two-hour debate, Andrew Yang only got to speak for six minutes and 53 seconds. That's nothing. Like, there are rappers who speak more before their song even starts. Yeah, just like, uh-huh-uh, yeah, uh-huh, yeah, uh-huh-uh. Turn the bass up, turn the bass up, turn the headphones down, uh-huh-uh, yeah, yeah. Okay, turn it back up again, uh-huh-uh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Why didn't you figure this ---- out before you started recording? Why is this on the song? Uh-huh-uh, can you get a sweater from the car? It's a little cold in here, uh-huh-uh, yeah, yeah. Now, I'm not saying Andrew Yang should get the same amount of coverage as the frontrunners, but you have to admit, it's a little strange that he gets less attention than other candidates who poll lower than he does. I mean, for instance, Michael Bloomberg hasn't even entered the race, and he's getting more media coverage than Andrew Yang. Yeah, I even turned onto cable news one day, and, uh, Bloomberg's name was on the screen literally the entire time. What the hell? So, who is this mysterious candidate who's not a media darling but is still holding his own in this race? Well, let's learn a little bit more about him in our ongoing segment, Getting to Know Them. Who is Andrew Yang? Other than the man debate moderators turn to when they're sick of being yelled at by Bernie, it turns out he's got a pretty interesting story. His parents immigrated from Taiwan. His father, a physicist. His mother has a master's in math and statistics. Yang grew up in Schenectady, New York. I was a very nerdy Chinese kid, uh, played piano and had braces. He studied economics and political science at Brown and went to law school at Columbia. Yang made millions helping Americans study harder for standardized tests as CEO of Manhattan Prep. He then founded Venture for America, an organization helping entrepreneurs create jobs in cities like Baltimore and Detroit, and Yang says it helped push him into politics. He was named a presidential ambassador of entrepreneurship by the Obama administration and a champion of change. Okay, wait, what? I didn't know that. Yang was Obama's ambassador of entrepreneurship? I didn't know that. Like, why does he never talk about that at the debates? Yeah, because if you have anything to do with Obama, you got to bring that ---- up every time you get a chance. Every other candidate does it. I was his vice president. I work in his cabinet. If you squint, I kind of look like him. So Andrew Yang is a lawyer who made millions of dollars as an entrepreneur, but what got his presidential campaign notice was not how much money he has, but how much money he was willing to give away. He announced in 2017 that barely moved the needle. Then he went on the Joe Rogan experience in February of 2019. He talked about his universal basic income plan, which would give every American citizen $1,000 a month, and suddenly the mentions of him skyrocketed. Tonight, free money for every American adult for every month, no strings attached. Presidential candidate Andrew Yang's big idea, give every American adult $1,000 a month. If you've heard anything about me and my campaign, you've heard something like this. There's an Asian man running for president who wants to give everyone $1,000 a month. Yes, when Andrew Yang started running for president, no one cared. But then, when they found out he was going to give out free money, all of a sudden everyone knew his name. And that's the magic of money. It brings people out of the woodwork. Yeah, everyone. Yeah, you win the lottery, you'll get family you didn't know existed. In fact, next time there's an earthquake, emergency, right, the personnel should just walk around the rubble like, I'm giving away free cash. People will dig themselves out of the rubble like, did someone say free cash?