Andrew yang campaign mysteriously teases he'll do 'something no presidential candidate has ever done before' at thursday's debate

Could entrepreneur Andrew Yang become the first presidential candidate in history to crowd surf his way into a presidential debate? The 2020 Democrat's campaign Wednesday mysteriously

teased to _The Daily Beast_'s Sam Stein that at tomorrow night's Democratic presidential debate, he's going to do "something no presidential candidate has ever done

before in history." No other information was provided, though this comes after Yang crowd-surfed at a 2020 town hall, opening up the possibility he'll double down on this virality

to become the cycle's official crowd-surfing candidate. SUBSCRIBE TO THE WEEK Escape your echo chamber. Get the facts behind the news, plus analysis from multiple perspectives.

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From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox. But it's anyone's guess what shenanigans Yang might have

in store. Will he be the first presidential candidate to drop out of the race _during_ a debate? The first to complain about his microphone being off while actually speaking into a working

microphone? The first to dedicate his opening statement to singing the full _Cheers_ theme song? Or will it be something far more boring, with this tease being little more than an attempt to

direct the Twitterverse's attention to a debate performance that would have otherwise made no impression outside of the Yang Gang? As President Trump might say, we'll see what

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