Andrew Yang’s campaign says over 450,000 people have entered debate contest

Andrew Yang’s surprising debate gambit — giving away $120,000 to 10 families over a year to highlight his universal basic income proposal — helped the outsider candidate raise $1 million in the 72 hours since the debate and collect more than 450,000 email addresses from people who entered the online raffle, the presidential campaign told POLITICO.

“We’ve got a 21st century candidate and we’re running a 21st century campaign,” Campaign Manager Zach Graumann said. “That’s something not many of our competitors can say.” Yang framed the cash giveaway, which ends at 11:59pm ET Thursday night, in populist terms — that it was better to spend the campaign money giving it back to the people rather than spend it on TV ads and political consultants.“When you donate money to a presidential campaign, what happens?” Yang asked in his opening statement at Thursday night’s debate. “The politician spends the money on TV ads and consultants and you hope it works out. It’s time to trust ourselves more than our politicians.

“This campaign stunt is of dubious legality, at best,” said Brendan Fischer, the federal reform legal director at the Campaign Legal Center. “Handing campaign funds to supporters comes awfully close to violating the personal use prohibition. But Yang seems to be going ahead because he knows that the paralyzed FEC can’t tell him ‘no.’”

Illegal. He needs arrested - you’re not allowed to buy votes directly. We use SuperPACs for that 😜

I was beginning to fear that we had run out of terrible ways to pick Presidential candidates. But, no.

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Go Yang!

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Yang beating Trump in NH

I amazed Yang's silly raffle is getting all the digital ink and cable airtime it's getting. It's right up there with Ford's WIN buttons.

ali How is buying votes not illegal?

Why even bother having laws at this point

blue privilege

What Federal Election Commission? It's just a building with a name on it and cardboard cutouts rolling around on a train set.

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