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posted by chromas on Monday April 15 2019, @11:55PM   Printer-friendly
from the you're-my-only-hope dept.

Presidential candidate Andrew Yang will use 3D holograms for remote rallies

Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang revealed this week that he's planning to use a 3D hologram to hold campaign rallies in multiple cities at the same time. Yang discussed the hologram during an appearance on TMZ Live. The segment showed off a hologram version of Yang dancing and performing with the famous Tupac hologram that appeared at Coachella in 2012.

[...] Yang plans to use the hologram, broadcast from the back of a truck, to deliver a recorded version of his stump speech to crowds in battleground states. Yang would set up in a studio and remotely beam into the rally to answer questions live and in real-time after the speech finished. The technique could save Yang, a longshot for the Democratic nomination at this point, a considerable amount of travel costs while helping to rally supporters and generate interest in key areas.

In the future, all politicians will attend events exclusively as holograms, beamed from their studios in Elysium.

Andrew Yang.


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  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Tuesday April 16 2019, @06:26PM

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Tuesday April 16 2019, @06:26PM (#830521) Journal

    President Trump enjoyed a lot of free airtime. Yang would get some of that if he became the nominee, and would likely get no less than 45% of the vote regardless. Dem anger and Republican fatigue could cause Yang to win by default. Of course, Trump can still win in 2020 no matter who the Democratic nominee is.

    The real hurdle is the primary/caucus race where Yang has 15-20 viable opponents and Bernie Sanders is apparently the frontrunner. Bernie has his camp, Hillary's camp could go to one of the 3+ women in the race, and Yang has some memelords and maybe a few Bernie bros. If Biden doesn't get completely #MeToo'd and decides to run, he could be near the front. Other fringe candidates in the race have better name recognition than Yang.

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