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Forward Party tries to gain traction in U.S. politics

Published July 11, 2023 at 8:20 AM CDT
Andrew Yang at a news conference in 2021. (Kevin Hagen/AP)
Andrew Yang at a news conference in 2021. (Kevin Hagen/AP)

A fledgling political party in the U.S. called Forward is trying to get candidates on the ballot for the 2024 election. The party was started by former Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang and former Republican governor of New Jersey, Christine Todd Whitman.

Here & Now‘s Celeste Headlee speaks with Yang and Whitman.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.

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