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Crime Concerns Drove Asian Americans Away From New York Democrats
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| Contributor | IndyGeorgia |
| Last Edited | IndyGeorgia Jan 14, 2023 01:40pm |
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| Author | Luis Ferré-Sadurní and Ellen Yan |
| News Date | Tuesday, January 10, 2023 06:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Asian Americans have typically formed a crucial and reliable voting bloc for Democrats in recent years, helping the party maintain its political dominance in liberal states like New York.
But Republicans shattered that presumption in November when they came within striking distance of winning the governor’s race in New York for the first time in 15 years, buoyed in part by a surge of support among Asian American voters in southern Brooklyn and eastern Queens.
Now, Democrats are trying to determine how they can stem — and, if possible, reverse — the growing tide of Asian American voters drifting away from the party amid a feeling that their concerns are being overlooked.
Interviews with more than 20 voters of Asian descent, many of them Chinese Americans who had historically voted for Democrats but did not in 2022, found that many went with the Republican candidate for governor, Lee Zeldin, even if begrudgingly, largely because of concerns about crime. |
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