At the end of August, Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight gave Donald Trump a 30% chance of winning the presidency -- even higher than his odds going into the 2016 election.
Our chair, Rep. Grace Meng, is sounding the alarm and calling on Democrats to reach out to AAPI voters who can push Joe Biden and Kamala Harris over the top in key battleground states -- and save the 2020 election before it’s too late.
But so far, outreach efforts have a long way to go, and we have no more time to lose before Election Day. Based on battleground state polling data, Trump Victory Indian American Finance Committee Co-Chair Al Mason has now predicted that “as many as 50 percent of potential Indian American voters will defect from the Democratic Party and vote for President Trump.”
Michigan alone has 125,000 Indian American voters -- and it’s a state Trump won by just 10,700 votes last election. If this trend continues, the president will sweep these key battleground states because we failed to reach the voters we needed to win. We MUST send a message to the Democratic Party that AAPI voters can no longer be ignored -- because if they are, we’ll be in for four more years of Trump’s America. That’s why we’re asking you now to help us send a message while there’s still time: