Entrepreneur turned 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang is “playing to win” and he “does not give a shit about a spot in the Joe Biden administration.”

The line drew a screaming applause from his very enthusiastic “Yang Gang” supporters at a fundraiser earlier this month, when the laid out why his campaign is growing, and why he predicts the trend will continue through this week’s debate.

“One thing I will let you all know right now, I do not give a shit about a spot in the Joe Biden administration,” Yang said, the crowd erupting into to whoops and hollers. “You can almost see the other candidates being like, ‘What am I going to do? What am I going to do? Am I just going to go down quietly and meekly and hope that Joe picks me for a non shitty cabinet post?’

“We all know from day one that this is going to be a high variance campaign. We’re playing to win, am I right?” he said to more applause.

Yang, who former president Obama repeatedly praised for his work promoting startups and entrepreneurs, met the polling and fundraising qualifications for the first Democratic debate on Wednesday, and his campaign is well on its way to meeting the heightened thresholds for future debates, he told supporters.

Yang likened the other Democratic candidates to a good poker hand that ultimately loses to something better.

“Sometimes the worst hand you can get is a good hand,” he said. “Because then you stick around, you stick around, you stick around, and then you lose. And unfortunately that what I think some of the other Democratic candidate are.

“They’re like a good hand and they are going to preside over the continued disintegration of our way of life, and that’s what I’m trying to prevent,” Yang said.

The Real Clear Politics polling average for the last few weeks puts Yang’s support at 1.3 percent, which would put him in eighth place in a field of nearly 30 vying for the Democratic nomination to take on President Trump in the general election.

Yang said he expects that support to surge once “I crush it at the debates on June 26 and June 27.”

“What we want them to ask is who is the Asian man standing next to Joe Biden,” Yang said. “And then they’re going to be like, ‘Wait a minute, I heard something about his guy, he wants to give everyone $1,000 a month. He’s actually on the debate stage? This is real?’

“And then they’re going to Google Andrew Yang, or Asian guy standing next to Joe Biden,’” he joked. “This is going to be our coming out party, and the field is going to re-arrange itself so much in the days to come.”

Yang said he plans to emphasize how his campaign is “peeling off thousands” of Trump supporters, independents and Democrats with innovative solutions to problems many of the other candidates haven’t even considered.

Much of Yang’s focus is on responses to unemployment from technological automation, including his push for Universal Basic Income, which he describes as a $1,000 “Freedom Dividend” for all U.S. adults.

Unlike most Democrat candidates with similar socialist-style policies, Yang is promoting “Human-Centered Capitalism,” though he does support Medicare for All.

The New Yorker is also proposing a slew of other radical changes outlined in more than 100 policies on his campaign website, from lowering the voting age to 16, to promoting vocational education, to legalizing marijuana and making Puerto Rico the next U.S. state.

Yang’s other more obscure issues involve reducing packaging waste, data as a property right, increased funding for autism, free financial counseling, paying NCAA athletes, ranked choice voting, term limits for Supreme Court justices, relocating federal agencies, anti-circumcision policies, and others.

“Our numbers are going to just keep going up because our message is distinct,” Yang told his supporters. “It’s not left, it’s not right, it’s forward, and that’s where we’re going to take the country in 2020.”