Yang and Booker complain about missing ‘all-white’ Iowa debate stage

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Andrew Yang and Cory Booker are irate with the Democratic Party after the pair failed to qualify for next week’s final debate before the Feb. 3 Iowa caucuses.

The absence of Yang, 44, who made the stage last month in Los Angeles, means the cast of qualifying presidential candidates — Joe Biden, Pete Buttigieg, Amy Klobuchar, Bernie Sanders, Tom Steyer, and Elizabeth Warren — will take part in the first “all-white” debate of the 2020 primary.

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