The Atlantic
The bloc’s power is growing fast. That could be bad news for the GOP.
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Voters wait in line to hand in their ballots to election officials at a YMCA in Boston’s Chinatown.Joseph Prezioso / AFP /Getty
When Kamala Harris, Hillary Clinton, and other prominent Democrats appeared online at a major fundraiser last night, they spotlighted one of the least discussed lessons of the 2020 election: Asian Americans are poised for a major leap in electoral influence.
In Democratic circles, the bloc’s impact on the 2020 election has been largely obscured by the intense focus on understanding how Donald Trump improved his performance among another rapidly growing minority group, Latinos. But the magnitude of the Asian American turnout surge, and its influence on the result, is drawing increased attention as analysts complete more detailed studies on which Americans voted last year.
Don t Sleep on Asian American Voters
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Sery Kim, a Korean American who previously served in
Donald Trump’s Small Business Administration (SBA) came under fire last week after she appeared to broadly say during a Republican party immigration forum in Arlington that she didn’t want immigrants from China to come to the United States.
“I don’t want them here at all,” Kim said in response to a question about potential Chinese immigrants (Kim has said she was referring to the Chinese Communist Party and its adherents, not those fleeing oppression). “They steal our intellectual property, they give us coronavirus, they don’t hold themselves accountable.”