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2020 candidate Andrew Yang defends $1,000 a month program, slams Dems for wanting to abolish Electoral College
Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang appeared on "Fox and Friends" Friday morning to defend his campaign's key proposal of giving $12,000 to each American adult every year and criticized Democrats for their newfound support for the abolition of the Electoral College. Yang, former ambassador of global entrepreneurship in the Obama administration and a long-shot candidate for the party's nomination, was grilled by the show hosts and the audience about his universal basic income program, dubbed "Freedom Dividend," and his other views. "You have to look up who are going to be the biggest winners from artificial intelligence and self-driving cars and trucks and new technologies. The American people are gonna see very little of the gains in the innovation," said Yang. "The American people are gonna see very little of the gains in the innovation." He added that due to an increasing automation, "most of us" won't work at Amazon or other companies, leaving the rest of the people at a disadvantage because their source of income will disappear.