Democratic presidential hopeful Andrew Yang — touting his $1,000-a-month universal basic income proposal on Boston Herald Radio Wednesday — claims his campaign is winning over disillusioned Trump supporters.

“I’m already getting a bunch of Trump supporters on my side because they see that for all of Trump’s bluster, he’s not really delivering on many of the things that he said he would be able to change,” Yang said. “And many of my supporters have said the opposite of Donald Trump is an Asian man who likes math — and so I’m going to be his spoil. You know, I am his worst nightmare. He even said it early, what he’s scared of is some new figure coming out of nowhere to run against him, because he knows that a lot of his supporters dislike politicians, and I am not a politician.”

Yang, 44, who declared his candidacy for the 2020 Democratic nomination for president in November 2017, told Boston Herald Radio that what separates him from the crowded field of Democratic presidential candidates is that his campaign “is focused on solving the problems that got Donald Trump elected in the first place.”

Drawing comparisons to President Trump, Yang bills himself as an outsider and he too is a businessman with no previous political experience.

Yang said he believes Trump was elected because of anger over how quickly American manufacturing jobs are being wiped out due to new technologies, adding that the next wave of further automation will threaten to eliminate one-third of all American jobs and render a number of industries, like truck driving, obsolete.

To fend off the jobs lost to robots and artificial intelligence, Yang’s core campaign promise is his so-called “Freedom Dividend,” a monthly check of $1,000 to every American from age 18 to 64, regardless of income or employment status.

“This may be the first you heard of this idea of a universal basic income, but it has been with the country since its founding,” said Yang. “We’re going to need a universal basic income in the rest of America as we’re going through what experts at MIT and McKinsey are calling the fourth industrial revolution.”