Andrew Yang kept running to the bathroom to throw up. The walls weren’t thick, and he was so loud that operatives on other campaigns started joking about “Yanging.” He’d been having a blast pretending to run for president, but this was the real thing, live, on national television, standing onstage a few podiums down from people who might actually be president, and he was sick and nervous. He’d had an IV in him earlier in the day, a massive nosebleed an hour before going onstage. “I was literally thinking, ‘Please don’t bleed on national TV,’” he said.

— Battle for the Soul by Edward-Isaac Dovere (Page 213)