That's still poor attendance for a Trump rally but it's positively yuuuuuge for any of the Dem candidates. I'll try looking into his attendance numbers if I have some time this week.

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He’s not going to collapse on the campaign trail, nor does he think America is filled with baskets of deplorables as 3/4 of the Democrats have really implied.

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People are paying attention to that idiot weirdo Beto, but Yang will rake him over the coals, as well as every other Democrat who has no other platform than “frick Trump”.

He's young enough to have the energy for a solid run and he seems to have the drive. The problem though is so many of the most vocal Dem supporters are of the mindset that their candidate's primary quality must be that they fricking hate Trump with the searing heat of a thousand flaring suns. These are the people that get on TV, get their Tweets re-tweeted and write highly-read OpEds in the most popular newspapers.

Let me be clear on this: The DNC and media are not going to give favorable time and/or coverage to any Democrat candidate who does not run primarily on OrangeManBad (unless they make it to the general election).

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Pay attention to this guy, because I think his message will majorly appeal to the Rust Belt and people smart enough to realize that their job won’t exist in 20 years.

They were told in the 70's that automation was going to take their jobs. What ended up happening was that NAFTA did far more than what automation could. I think there's an eventuality for even more automation with upcoming tech but I think "20 years" is a bit more fear-mongering than rooted in truth.

With all that said there's also the political machine within the DNC. Ellison and crew want a posterchild for their victimization philosophy, to them it's the ultimate story of triumph of the human spirit for someone female and/or black and/or Muslim to win. Asians are the only racial group who outperforms whites, thus having an Asian candidate actually defeats their class warfare strategery.

So, no. Yang will never make it to the general election.