Democrats Are Failing The Asian American Community

The Republican Party Is Fighting For Asian Americans – A Community That Has Increasingly Been Hurt By Far-Left Policies

REPUBLICANS ARE COMMITTED TO THE ASIAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY

• The RNC is celebrating this Asian Pacific American Heritage Month by continuing to engage with the Asian American community and welcome new members into our party of opportunity. 
  • Last cycle, the RNC opened community centers across the nation to foster relationships with the Asian American community. 
• The Republican Party has a long history of making inroads with the Asian American community and breaking down barriers with Asian American leaders. 
  • In 1959, Republican Hiram Fong became the first Asian American to serve in the Senate and in 1964 became the first Asian American to receive delegate votes as part of a presidential nominating convention.
  • In 1971, Republican Carlos Camacho became the first elected Governor of Guam.
  • In 1992, Republican Jay Kim became the first Korean American elected to Congress.
  • In 2001, President George W. Bush appointed Elaine Chao to be the first female Asian American cabinet member.  
  • In 2007, Republican Bobby Jindal became the first Indian American to be elected governor of Louisiana.
  • In 2020, Republicans Young Kim and Michelle Steel became two of the first Korean American women elected to Congress.

ASIAN AMERICANS ARE MOVING TO THE REPUBLICAN PARTY

• Asian American voters are flocking to the Republican party, rejecting Biden and Democrats' failed policies.
• During the 2022 midterms, APA support for Republicans jumped 17 points, the largest shift among any minority voting group.
• In 2020, Republicans flipped 15 Congressional seats from Democrat to Republican – in each of the seats flipped, the elected winner was either a woman or minority, with two of the seats going to Asian Americans.
• Republicans made inroads in the Asian American community under the previous Republican administration, with a 7 point shift toward Republicans from 2016 to 2020.
  • The shift was even greater among the Vietnamese American community, which experienced a 14 point shift toward Republican candidates from 2016 to 2020.

BIDEN AND DEMOCRATS' POLICIES ARE FAILING ASIAN AMERICANS 

• Biden's $1.9 trillion "stimulus" fueled inflation, and Asian Americans bore the cost with rising prices and lower wages.
  • Under Republican leadership, the Asian American community saw a record low unemployment rate, record high incomes, and record low poverty.
  • Now, at a time when Americans are paying more for just about everything, Biden wants to slam Americans with even more reckless taxes and spending. 
• Biden gave $80 billion to the IRS for an army of 87,000 new IRS agents.
  • Asian Americans, who have some of the highest rates of small business ownership among any community, will be at risk for additional audits.
• The Biden administration is imposing a new "responsibility tax" on many homebuyers, penalizing borrowers with high credit scores and high downpayments.
  • A new report indicates that this new "responsibility tax" will disproportionately harm Asian Americans looking to buy a home.
• Biden and Democrats' pro-criminal policies have led to skyrocketing crime around the country, forcing Asian Americans to feel unsafe in their own neighborhoods.
  • Progressive radicals have allowed criminals with lengthy rap sheets to remain on the streets to commit violent anti-Asian hate crimes.
• Biden and Democrats support "racial preferences" in school admissions, which effectively allows discrimination against Asian American students.
  • Biden's Justice Department failed to protect Asian Americans from discrimination by refusing to sue Yale University for race-based discrimination in college admissions.
  • In 2021, the Biden administration urged the Supreme Court not to hear a case alleging Harvard University "intentionally discriminates" against Asian Americans.
  • 65 percent of Asian Americans support a ban on race-conscious college admissions according to a Washington Post/Schar School poll.  
• Instead of providing real solutions, all Biden can do is pander and mock Asian Americans. 
  • Biden has used racial tropes to describe Indian Americans, mimicking an Indian accent to describe call centers and claiming "you cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent."
  • Biden asked Andrew Yang what he would do if he was "emperor" and referred to Singaporean leader Lee Kuan Yew as "the wisest man in the Orient."
  • Biden awkwardly referred to 29-year-old Masters golf champion Hideki Matsuyama as a "Japanese boy."