Yang requests donations from ‘Freedom Dividend’ raffle entrants

Published September 14, 2019 3:59pm ET



Democratic presidential candidate and entrepreneur Andrew Yang made a splash during Thursday’s debate by announcing that he would be giving away $1,000 a month for a year to 10 lucky Americans who entered his “Freedom Dividend” raffle, but now he’s looking to them for donations to his campaign.

The raffle, which boldly boasts “No strings attached!” on the landing page of Yang’s campaign website, asks only for entrants’ names, email addresses, and zip codes and reiterates in the fine print that no donations are required to win.

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