{"id":176946,"date":"2020-02-11T22:58:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-12T03:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/02\/11\/bye-felecia-andrew\/"},"modified":"2020-02-11T22:58:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-12T03:58:00","slug":"bye-felecia-andrew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/02\/11\/bye-felecia-andrew\/","title":{"rendered":"Bye Felecia Andrew"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 330px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"180\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rY0WxgSXdEE\" width=\"320\"><\/iframe><br \/><i>Cue Queen<\/i><\/div>\n<p>Andrew Yang has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/02\/11\/us\/politics\/andrew-yang-drops-out.html\">suspended his presidential campaign<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Andrew Yang, an entrepreneur with no previous political experience who evangelized a universal basic income and warned of the perils of automation, ended his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/10\/technology\/his-2020-campaign-message-the-robots-are-coming.html\">longer-than-long-shot bid<\/a> for president on Tuesday night after a yearslong campaign that endured even as those of members of Congress and governors dropped out.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to supporters inside a ballroom as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/02\/11\/us\/politics\/nh-primary-election.html\">New Hampshire\u2019s primary results<\/a> were coming in, Mr. Yang said \u201cendings are hard\u201d and that he had intended to stay in the race until the end.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am the math guy, and it\u2019s clear from the numbers we\u2019re not going to win this campaign,\u201d he said. \u201cSo tonight I\u2019m announcing that I am suspending my campaign.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>His campaign never cought fire, and I thought that has attempts at breaking through were clownish in a game-show sort of way, but he did have his fans, and unlike some **cough** Bloomberg and Buttigieg **cough** he did not appear to be particularly evil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cue Queen Andrew Yang has suspended his presidential campaign: Andrew Yang, an entrepreneur with no previous political experience who evangelized a universal basic income and warned of the perils of automation, ended his longer-than-long-shot bid for president on Tuesday night after a yearslong campaign that endured even as those of members of Congress and governors &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[374,405],"class_list":["post-176946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-politics","tag-presidential-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176946"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}