Washington, DC: Indian Americans are likely to vote in the US presidential elections based on what the candidates have done for them and not on the basis of their heritage or race, a newly formed body representing Asian communities has said, claiming that Republican candidate Donald Trump has a better track record than his Democratic rival, Vice President Kamala Harris.
Harris, 59, is the first-ever presidential candidate of Indian heritage on the top of a Democratic presidential ticket which has generated a lot of excitement among members of the Indian-American community in the US. They number about five million.
Co-founder of Asians Make America Great Again (MAGA) Holly Ham told PTI, "I think Indian Americans really look, and not just heritage because someone is on the ticket, but what has that person done? Do they espouse the same values?"
"What has Kamala Harris done for Indians and Asian Indians? What about education rights? She supported, I believe, Proposition 47 in California, and that was to support racial quotas for universities in California. That's a big issue," she said.
While Indian Americans live primarily in Democratic bastions like New York, California and Illinois, and Texas, a Republican stronghold, but in some of the key battleground states like Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Georgia and North Carolina, they can be the margin of victory in a closely contested race.
AsiansMAGA, formed by some grassroots Asian American leaders, is a national alliance -- independent expenditure political action committee -- that aims at mobilizing Asian American conservatives and moderates across multiple ethnic groups -- Chinese, Indian, Korean, Vietnamese and Filipinos -- to help President Trump win the 2024 election.
It is co-founded by Asian community leaders who have proven records fighting for equal education rights and other conservative causes. Many of them escaped communist regimes and are scared by the ongoing Marxist take-over of America, the group said.
