Andrew Yang claims Kamala Harris’ marketing campaign crew blacklisted him in 2024

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Former Democratic presidential candidate-turned-independent Andrew Yang claimed that former Vice President Kamala Harris' marketing campaign put his title on a blacklist forward of the 2024 election.

Yang, who ran within the 2020 Democratic major, made the declare in excerpts from his upcoming e book, "Hey Yang, The place’s My Thousand Bucks?", which have been supplied to the U.Ok.-based outlet, The Times , on Wednesday.

Based on Yang, Harris' crew blocked him from partaking with the marketing campaign after he urged former President Joe Biden to step out of the race following his debate with then-candidate Donald Trump.

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Andrew Yang wrote about former Vice President Kamala Harris' marketing campaign in his upcoming e book "Hey Yang, The place’s My Thousand Bucks?" (Brandon Bell/Getty Pictures)

" Kamala Harris ’s marketing campaign had put me on a listing of individuals to not use or discuss with, as a consequence of the truth that I’d ‘crossed the road’ in my disrespect of Joe Biden," Yang wrote. "So dumb. I used to be form of glad, to be trustworthy, as a result of in the event that they’d requested me to do one thing, I might have felt honor certain to conform, however I don’t know the way convincing I might have been."

Regardless of this, Yang went on to endorse Harris for president, although he referred to as her marketing campaign's determination to keep away from him "an indication of a culture downside" inside the social gathering.

"For those who’re making an attempt your finest to win, who cares what I stated 4 weeks in the past?" Yang wrote. "Use anybody who would possibly transfer votes."

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Yang identified that Harris and different members of the Democratic Celebration equally ousted Elon Musk and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. from their ranks regardless of their earlier help for liberal candidates after they didn't comply with social gathering orthodoxy.

Andrew Yang criticized Harris' marketing campaign for pushing out folks like him who didn't comply with social gathering orthodoxy. (AP Picture/Jacquelyn Martin)

Kennedy, Yang famous, thought of endorsing Harris for president earlier than in the end backing Trump after Harris' crew rejected him.

Yang additionally argued {that a} related mindset existed in liberal media, claiming that his job as a CNN contributor was rescinded in 2021 after he registered as an independent .

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"[T]he information got here out that I used to be not a Democrat," Yang wrote. "My agent referred to as me throughout this time and stated, ‘Hey, CNN is rescinding its supply to you. Apparently, they don’t need to be seen as supporting a 3rd social gathering.’"

"I responded, ‘Wouldn’t that make me extra precious to them, not much less, in that I’d be an goal voice that isn’t tied up in a single social gathering or the opposite?’"

Andrew Yang beforehand ran as a Democratic presidential candidate towards Kamala Harris in 2020. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters)

Fox News Digital reached out to Harris' workplace and CNN for remark.

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In one other excerpt, Yang teased a possible 2028 presidential run, possible below the Ahead Celebration, which he co-founded in 2021 .

"[T]he odds of my operating once more are excessive," Yang wrote.

Lindsay Kornick is an affiliate editor for Fox Information Digital. Story ideas might be despatched to lindsay.kornick@fox.com and on Twitter: @lmkornick.