PLYMOUTH, N.H. (AP) Bounding onto a stage at a conference center in New Hampshire, tech entrepreneur Andrew Yang beamed a smile to a cheering crowd and launched into his pitch for votes heading into of Tuesdays first-in-the nation primary.

Yang didnt mention his poor showing in Iowa, his back-of-the-pack polling in New Hampshire or the fact his campaign recently laid off an undisclosed number of people. Instead, he recalled a conversation he had in Washington in which he was told that he needed to create a wave in other parts of the country and bring that wave crashing down on our heads in D.C.

I said challenge accepted, Yang said of his decision to run for president. Here we are Plymouth and you are that wave.

Yang is among a handful of candidates who are polling in the single digits as New Hampshires primary nears. He joins Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet, former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, billionaire activist Tom Steyer and Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard near the bottom of most surveys. For most of them, a poor showing on Tuesday could force them to rethink their campaigns.

Only Yang and Steyer qualified for Fridays presidential debate.