The former presidential candidate has recently endorsed Minnesota Congressman Dean Phillips, who has entered the primary race against the president.
MANCHESTER, N.H.—Former Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang said on Monday that President Joe Biden is not the right candidate to beat former President Donald Trump in the upcoming election.
Last week, Mr. Yang endorsed Democratic presidential candidate Rep. Dean Phillips (D-Minn.) and began campaigning alongside him.
The Minnesota Democrat represents the best chance to defeat Donald Trump, Mr. Yang told The Epoch Times during a campaign event in Manchester, New Hampshire.
He added that an electoral race dominated by 80-year-olds does not reflect the choices of most Americans.
According to Mr. Yang, Dean Phillips’ campaign is going to see significant momentum beginning Tuesday in New Hampshire.
“Incumbent presidents historically get 80 to 84 percent of the vote in New Hampshire, and I think that Dean is going to do very well, and Joe Biden is going to do considerably worse than the norm for an incumbent president,” he said of Tuesday’s New Hampshire primary.
“And I think that that should really spur conversation,“ Mr. Yang said. ”The American people deserve a Democratic nominee who will defeat Trump in the fall, and the numbers show that Joe Biden is not that candidate.”
Mr. Phillips is a 54-year-old, three-term congressman who launched a run for the Democratic nomination in October last year. He hopes to boost his numbers by appealing to New Hampshire’s sizable population of independent voters in the state’s Democratic primary on Tuesday,
When asked whether he would still support President Biden if Dean Phillips doesn’t secure the nomination, Mr. Yang did not provide a direct response.
He said he would support anyone who could prevent President Trump from returning to the White House.
“Unfortunately, I think Joe Biden was the right candidate in 2020. I do not think he’s the right candidate in 2024.”
The president’s name will not be on the ballot in the Granite State. This is due to a change in the Democratic National Committee’s rules, which designated South Carolina as the first formal primary in the Democratic presidential nomination cycle.
