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Former tech entrepreneur and Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang is looking to scale up his campaign in New Hampshire.Yang, who believes in giving Americans a universal basic income, is working his way into the ranks of the 2020 contenders."I think we've captured the interest of many Americans who are looking for a different kind of conversation, a conversation around solutions, a conversation about the economic realities they face," he said.Success has brought added scrutiny to his campaign. To prove that his proposed $1,000 per month "Freedom Dividend" to all Americans would work, Yang is personally paying a Goffstown family that sum out of his own pocket. But his campaign recently announced it will amend its Federal Election Commission filings to officially disclose those payments moving forward."It's something we're obviously very happy to comply with and document, because it's obviously been public record the whole time," he said. "It's literally front-page news."Yang's support is starting to register in the polls in New Hampshire. If he can sustain and build his campaign in New Hampshire in a crowded race in which every vote will matter, other progressive outsiders might have to start treating him as a true competitor."He's definitely running in that left lane, and so Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren are going to have to take notice," said WMUR political reporter John DiStaso. "One could argue that any vote for Yang is coming out of either one of them."But Yang said he sees himself in a lane of his own."If someone has a good idea, it does not matter to me where they are on the political spectrum," he said. "It's not left, it's not right, it's forward, and that's where we have to take the country."Yang has a three-day campaign swing planned in New Hampshire, starting with events Thursday in Hanover and Lebanon.