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Yang cancelled his campaign events for the day.

Former United States President candidate and current New York City mayoral candidate, Andrew Yang, was slated to hold a campaign event in the city today. However, when Yang began to experience severe abdominal pain, he was forced to cancel the event and was rushed to Mt. Sinai West Hospital alongside his wife, Evelyn Yang. After being diagnosed with a kidney stone, Yang was taken to the emergency room where he underwent a procedure to have it removed.


“In the hospital with Andrew where we had our babies. Andrew is doing well on meds, with the best care team ever. We are joking about how this kidney stone is our third baby. Apparently it’s the closest men can get to labor,” Evelyn Yang said on her private Twitter after the procedure.

Yang was held for about an hour after the procedure to recover, and was discharged from the emergency room. “Thank you to the team at Mt Sinai West for the excellent care! And thanks Evelyn for keeping me company as I experienced my first (and hopefully last) kidney stone. Have been discharged and will now proceed to drink lots of water for the rest of the day,” Yang wrote on his own Twitter.

While Yang was forced to cancel the event planned for today, his campaign manager said that “he looks forward to getting back out on the trail in the days ahead.”

Yang is currently one of the front-runners for the mayoral election, thanks to notability and funds gathered during his presidential campaign. His platform is similar to what he spoke of while running for president: a “human-based” economy, universal basic income, and more affordable, easily accessible healthcare. Primaries for the mayoral vote will be held on June 22.