Andrew Yang’s campaign for the US Democratic presidential nomination has involved crowd surfing in California, doing the “Cupid shuffle” line dance in South Carolina and running up the steps of the Philadelphia Art Museum to the Rocky theme song.
The 44-year-old entrepreneur’s unorthodox tactics have elicited scoffs from rivals — Kamala Harris, Amy Klobuchar and Pete Buttigieg chuckled when Mr Yang said in a televised debate last month that his campaign would give a “freedom dividend” of $1,000 a month to 10 American families. They are less likely to be laughing now.
The political novice, who began campaigning with a mailing list consisting of his Gmail contacts, raised $10m in the third quarter, just shy of the $11.6m brought in by Ms Harris, the California senator, and far more than the hauls of New Jersey senator Cory Booker or Ms Klobuchar, the senator from Minnesota.