NASHUA — Powered by his plan of paying every American $1,000 per month, Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang continues to gain traction, as the latest New Hampshire public opinion poll shows he has more support in the Granite State than both Cory Booker of New Jersey and Beto O’Rourke of Texas.

Saturday, Yang joined Booker, Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Kamala Harris of California by opening an office in Nashua. The 1992 graduate of New Hampshire’s Phillips Exeter Academy is setting up shop at 115 Main St.

“I tell the joke: Do you know how many Californians each New Hampshire voter is worth?” Yang asked the several supporters who gathered to greet him on Saturday. “One thousand. So, each time your turn someone onto the Yang campaign here in New Hampshire, just think, ‘I got 1,000 Californians.'”

A successful entrepreneur and political newcomer, jubilant Yang greeted a roomful of supporters and the curious, before offering some brief remarks. Yang referred to himself as a “numbers guy,” speaking about the number of votes necessary to win the nomination.

“The winner in a field this crowded and fragmented might be 70,000; it might be 60,000 or 50,000,” he said. “Anything about 40,000 and you’re in the top three. So, every person you touch today, helps push us toward that goal. Every person you wake up to the Andrew Yang campaign is going to help us make history next February.”

Yang refers to his planned $1,000 monthly payments as a “Freedom Dividend.” During a previous interview with The Telegraph, Yang said he plans to fund this dividend via a new 10% value-added tax, which is a tax on the goods or services American businesses produce.

“This is where we start the revolution,” he told supporters on Saturday. “Look around this room. This is what a revolution looks like in 2020.”

“Let’s take this campaign from the early adopters, to the mainstream,” he exclaimed. “Let’s tell the rest of the country — it’s not left, it’s not right, it’s forward.”

During his previous interview with The Telegraph, Yang Democrats have to stop being in denial about why President Donald Trump was able to win Rust Belt states such as Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin in the 2016 Electoral College.

“Our politicians are ignoring the reason why Donald Trump is president today. The reason why Donald Trump is our president is that we automated away 4 million manufacturing jobs in Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Missouri, Iowa — all of the swing states he needed to win,” Yang said at the time.

Yang fears computers, robots and machines are going to continue displacing human workers in virtually every sector of the economy, leaving many without viable employment options.

“And now we are about to do the same thing to millions of retail jobs, call center jobs, fast food jobs, truck driving jobs, and on and on through the economy,” Yang continued with his comments about automation.

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