Yang's Nontraditional Supporters Are Real And Ready To Vote
A 33-year-old from Kansas City hitched a ride from a friend in St. Louis to stand in the cold and rain for more than four hours to meet Andrew Yang and experience Yangapalooza this past Friday.
Yangapalooza featured several hours of live entertainment from Chef Zoot, Weezer and others. More than 1,200 people showed up in downtown Des Moines to rock out before the event turned into a political spectacle.
Yang, a New York-based entrepreneur and Democratic presidential candidate, delivered a fiery speech peppered with some colorful, yet uplifting language before his legions of followers marched with him to the largest Democratic event of the year.
The Yang-themed festival was a first for Jessie Hart, the Missouri man from Kansas City. He had never been to a political event in Iowa before. He doesnt have the money to make the three-hour trip by himself.
Hes also never voted.
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