Andrew Yang Leaves Democratic Party to Become Independent
- He says he can better advance reform from outside party system
- Yang ran for president and for mayor of New York as a Democrat
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Andrew Yang, who ran as a Democrat for both New York City mayor and in the party’s 2020 presidential primaries, said that he’s changed his voting registration to “independent.”
“I’ve been a Democrat my entire adult life,” Yang wrote in a statement posted on his website Monday. “And yet, I’m confident that no longer being a Democrat is the right thing.”