White House hopeful Andrew Yang was largely a nonfactor at Thursday’s presidential debate, but the political novice afterwards blamed his limited airtime on technical difficulties
White House hopeful Andrew Yang was largely a nonfactor at Thursday’s presidential debate, but the political novice afterwards blamed his scant airtime on technical difficulties.
He echoed that sentiment in a string of tweets Friday, writing that “I feel bad for those who tuned in to see and support me that I didn’t get more airtime. Will do better and glad to have another opportunity in July !” Even as he chalked his lackluster showing up to the “media marginalization of the Andrew Yang narrative,” he allowed that he was unaccustomed to the debate format and acknowledged that there was a learning curve. The debate, he said, “requires very specific behaviors that feel very forced.” As an example, he offered, “you have to fake and force things even more than I’d anticipated.”poster="http://v.politico.com/images/1155968404/201906/3320/1155968404_6053538647001_6053382853001-vs.
There did appear to be some sort of audio issues on both nights of debates — there was a four-minute delay on Night One when the network switched moderators partway through and didn’t turn off the previous moderators’ mics off screen. On Night Two, multiple candidates appeared to strain to hear questions that were being asked of them.
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