An official for Andrew Yang’s 2020 presidential campaign said Thursday that its latest fundraising haul reinforces the notion that the former tech entrepreneur is starting to strike a chord with voters.
“It solidifies everything that I’ve been talking about to supporters here in South Carolina,” Jermaine Johnson, who serves as Yang’s campaign chairman in South Carolina, told Hill.TV.
Johnson pointed to one of the cornerstones of Yang’s campaign: universal basic income. He added that it has particularly resonated with poor voters in South Carolina.
“When I break it down like that, people are like, ‘I don’t care about what you have going on in terms of race or gender. All I want to do is to be able to take care of my family,'” he said.
Johnson also predicted that Yang’s fundraising hauls will only grow as he gains broader name recognition.
“Once the name recognition grows you see it correlates with the fundraising goals,” he said. “The more people hear about Yang, the more people like him, the more money that we bring in.”
His comments come after Yang’s campaign on Thursday announced that it had raised $16.5 million during the fourth quarter of 2019.
Yang’s latest fundraising numbers exceed his third-quarter fundraising total by $6.5 million. It also exceeds previous hauls brought in by front-runner and former Vice President Joe Biden, who raised $15 million in the third quarter.
Biden, along with Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), has yet to release fourth-quarter numbers.
— Tess Bonn
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