As more of a meta point, it's fascinating to see the corporate media's response playbook to outsiders like Yang. First stage was a Ron Paul style pretend he doesn't exist, such as MSNBC consistently omitting him from polling reporting despite the reporting including numerous competitors polling under him, or corporate-hosted[0] debates not letting him talk for 30 minutes straight.

Perhaps he's hanging on for long enough now to progress to the next Bernie style 16 negative stories in 16 hours[1] level.

[0]: https://www.lwv.org/newsroom/press-releases/league-refuses-h...

[1]: https://fair.org/home/washington-post-ran-16-negative-storie...