Panel: Why Yang is beating Buttigieg

when asked why he is running for President first instead of climbing the ladder:

https://youtu.be/otEbT0l_Hbg?t=115

"Why did you decide to go straight to Presidency (instead of mayor or governor first?)"

The main reason is that, I'm trying to solve the biggest problems of our time, and i think those problems are accelerating. I genuinely didn't think I have 5-10 years of climbing the ladder to wait to address some of these problems. To me the reason Trump is president is that we automated away 4 million manufacturing jobs in Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Missouri.

And those automation trends are just picking up steam as we close 30% of stores and Malls because of Amazon, and self-driving trucks are around the corner and truck driving is the most common job in 29 states..

So if I bided my time and was like maybe I can run for mayor and eventually I can make this case, well, we just don't have time for that shit. truthfully, I didn't have time for that shit, the country didn't have time for that shit. So right out the gate I decided I should run for President. And one of the things I say to people is like "look, I'm not some asshole that's gonna run the government like a business. They're very different things, you need different leadership and operating models...

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