What Went Down At The December Democratic Primary Debate
Yang is right about people of color not having the disposable income to donate to campaigns: The research backs him up. Michelle Ye Hee Lee of The Washington Post wrote a piece earlier this year about just how white political donors tend to be.
In the FiveThirtyEight/Ipsos poll conducted this week, 7.6 percent of respondents listed social-equality issues as most important to them in the Democratic primary. (See other results from the poll here.)
Who voters think is best on issues of social equality
Among the 244 respondents who said racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia and other types of discrimination were the most important issue to them in an Ipsos/FiveThirtyEight poll
| candidate | Share of respondents | |
|---|---|---|
| Bernie Sanders | 25.9% | |
| Joe Biden | 22.8 | |
| Elizabeth Warren | 19.9 | |
| Pete Buttigieg | 17.2 | |
| Someone else | 6.6 | |
| Andrew Yang | 2.5 | |
| Tom Steyer | 1.9 | |
| Amy Klobuchar | 0.4 |
As Yang and Sanders are demonstrating, the field is talking about racial inequality. I would like to see Latino and black candidates too, of course, but racial issues are not being ignored.