Trump “set the standard” for how to engage with AAPI voters. His party is figuring out how to match it, as Democrats fight back.
“A lot of people that have voted for Trump are immigrants,” said Yiatin Chu, a Republican who lost her race this month for a New York State Senate seat representing part of Queens. In Queens, about three-quarters of the Asian American population are immigrants.
But a sense of dissatisfaction predominated this year — something that benefited Republicans if they can figure out how to capture it and not be swallowed by it when they take control of Washington.
“I would say when I speak to Asian voters in my district, specifically, but even around the city, in the past year, it’s more about being anti-Democrat than it’s necessarily about pro-Republican,” Chu said. “Like there is such a rebuke on what we’ve been living under, that something else must be better.”
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