Former Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang on Tuesday said he was “kind of expected” to speak at the 2020 Democratic National Convention’s plan to begin new week, just after the lineup for the event was made public.
“I have to be honest. I expected to speak,” Yang tweeted Tuesday.
‘Maybe I addressed one too many applicants,’ he tweeted again, with a smiley-face emoji.
Yang’s tweets come after the DNC announced a line-up for the convention next week, with leading Democrats such as former President Bill Clinton, former President Barack Obama, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, former Secretary of State John Kerry and more.
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Also expected to speak at the most virtual convention are a number of former Democratic presidencies by 2020, including sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt .; First Chamber Member Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn .; Sen. Cory Booker, DN.J .; and former South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., Is also expected to speak at the event.
Yang, a tech entrepreneur, dropped out of the presidential race in February, after the first results of New Hampshire’s first primary presidency marked a disappointing finish for him.
Yang declared his candidacy two years ago, and was a long-term candidate for the Democratic nomination. But last year, he introduced a popular program called ‘Freedom Dividend’ – a universal basic income that every adult American would pay $ 1,000 a month. With his program and his energetic approach to campaigning, he went into middle-class status in the interviews.
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When he dropped out, Yang Buzzfeed told News that there was a part of him that felt ‘disappointed’, but also that “there’s also a competitive part of me – like I can not believe I lost for these people haw. “
Fox News’ Alex Pappas and Paul Steinhauser contributed to this report.
