Nate Silver: FiveThirtyEight will now cover Andrew Yang as a ‘major’ candidate

Published March 19, 2019 8:45pm ET



Polling analyst Nate Silver said Tuesday it’s time to take Democratic presidential hopeful Andrew Yang seriously.

“Andrew Yang has crossed the threshold where we consider him a major candidate,” Silver said in a tweet linking to a story on his site titled, “How Andrew Yang Could Win The 2020 Democratic Primary.” Silver founded the polling aggregation site FiveThirtyEight.

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