Former 2020 Dem presidential candidate Andrew Yang seems a little miffed that he wasn’t invited to speak at this year’s DNC:
I’ve got to be honest I kind of expected to speak.
— Andrew Yang🧢🇺🇸 (@AndrewYang) August 11, 2020
Shhh. Let him bitch about it:
a strange thing to say out loud https://t.co/DDZXr8Oj2P
— Chuck Ross (@ChuckRossDC) August 11, 2020
If you recall, Yang sent the same sort of snarky tweet right before Biden announced that he would pick a woman for the ticket:
Wow Joe just committed to a woman as VP. I like it. Though he didn’t mention that to me when we spoke. 😀
— Andrew Yang🧢🇺🇸 (@AndrewYang) March 16, 2020
The dude got zero delegates and dropped out after New Hampshire. What did he expect?
It’s this kind of sharp political acumen that brought Yang a grand total of zero delegates. https://t.co/NyyhzXAcrg
— Noah Shachtman (@NoahShachtman) February 20, 2020
And he didn’t exactly ingratiate himself with Team Biden:
New York must reinstate its Democratic presidential primary in June, a federal judge ruled, after a lawsuit by the former candidate Andrew Yang https://t.co/W4UoRFRJcA
— The New York Times (@nytimes) May 6, 2020
Plus, don’t Dems *need* to hear from John Kasich?
sorry man gotta make room for john kasich on the lineup https://t.co/llZtgtsIDJ
— jordan (@JordanUhl) August 11, 2020
Well, he was an unwanted novelty:
The fact that @AndrewYang isn’t speaking at the DNC is absolutely inane. The national party treated him like an unwanted novelty and *within months* his signature campaign proposals were urgently relevant on a national level.
They NEVER learn. https://t.co/HGfcT78KZ2
— Caroline McCarthy 🧢 (@caro) August 11, 2020
Maybe they’ll add him once the VP pick is announced?
Hey @DNC, hope this is just a simple oversight… https://t.co/GMip0bkRV1
— Mark L. Keam (@MarkKeam) August 11, 2020
Or not.
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