You're allowed to laugh, we're not recording, right?

I was a skinny Asian kid growing up in upstate New York

in an all-white town, I got a lot of heat from classmates

about being the only Asian kid.

So I heard a lot of \"chink,\" \"gook.\" It certainly made me

wanna look out for the underdog.

I'm very proud of my own heritage. I'm proud of

the fact that I'm the first Asian-American man to run for

president as a Democrat.

But my identity is a very secondary or tertiary or

marginal aspect of my candidacy, and when I go to Americans

around the country they don't care what race I am, they

just care about my vision for the country and how we're going

to improve their lives and the lives of their family members.

This tribalism that's tearing our country apart,

it's related to a dysfunctional economy.

I'm running for president in 2020 and my job is to solve

the problems that got Donald Trump elected.

He won, in my opinion, because we'd automated away four

million manufacturing jobs in the swing states. And now, what

we did to the manufacturing jobs we're going to do to retail

and call centers and truck driving and the rest of it.

My flagship proposal of Freedom Dividend would put a $1,000 a

month in the hands of you and every American adult during the

age 18. Twelve thousand dollars a year. So this is what I call

the trickle up economy, and if you think the Freedom Dividend

is too good to be true, this has been with us since the

country's founding.

Thomas Paine was for it,

[he] called it the Citizen's Dividend.

Martin Luther King was for it, in 1967 he called it the

Guaranteed Minimum Income.

The Democratic Party wants to empower women. Instead of

talking about empowering women we should do something about it.

We know that there are millions of American women around the

country who are stuck in exploitative or abusive jobs or

relationships that would be improved simply by putting a

thousand dollars a month into their hands.

So that's the Freedom Dividend and there's nothing stopping a

majority of citizens in a democracy from declaring

ourselves a dividend. It will make us stronger, healthier, and

will help us all prepare for the economy of the

21st century.

-White nationalists are supporting you online, why do

you think they're drawn to your candidacy?

You know it's been a point of confusion, because I don't

look much like a white nationalist.

-[Laughter]

I think people, probably, can catch onto the fact that like,

you know, I'm the son of immigrants and the last thing I

have is a white nationalist agenda. I'd rather not have

their support. That said, we have to solve the problems for

all Americans and the fact that different types of people from

different points of the political spectrum are excited

about my campaign is something that I'm encouraged by because

if we're going to beat Donald Trump in 2020 we need to get not

just progressives and Democrats but also independents,

libertarians, conservatives and Trump voters.

We'd love to have you join the campaign. Our average donation

online is only $19. My fans are even cheaper than Bernie's.

This is a very very cheap gang to join. Go to Yang2020.com,

donate a few bucks and I'll see you at the debate stage, but

let's make this case for a human-centered economy, together.