Andrew Yang updated his voter registration to independent from Democrat a day before his book hits the shelves, according to a Monday announcement that labeled the switch a “strangely emotional experience.”
Yang has identified as a Democrat for years and campaigned to be the Democratic nominee for president in 2020, but he is “confident that no longer being a Democrat is the right thing,” he said.
“My goal is to do as much as I can to advance our society. There are phenomenal public servants doing great work every day — but our system is stuck,” Yang said. “It is stuck in part because polarization is getting worse than ever.”
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The former candidate for president had been at odds with the Democratic National Committee and the Democratic Party, the announcement said.
“I’m not very ideological. I’m practical,” Yang’s statement said. “Making partisan arguments — particularly expressing what I often see as performative sentiment — is sometimes uncomfortable for me.”
The announcement of Yang’s switch arrived just a day prior to the release of his book Forward: Notes on the Future of Our Democracy.
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The work is set to present people with “the various ‘priests of the decline’ of America, including politicians whose incentives have become divorced from the people they supposedly serve,” according to its publisher.
