Early vote analysis by TargetSmart indicate that Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) voters are responding against 70-year-old Trump and the Republicans by voting in record numbers, AAPI Victory Fund said yesterday.
In Nevada and North Carolina, the per cent of AAPI voters is outpacing Hispanic voters, who are turning out in high numbers, the report said.
In Nevada, AAPI early vote is 42.7 per cent of the registered electorate and Hispanic vote is at 39.7 per cent.
One of the critical investments made this cycle was providing AAPI ethnicity data about our fast-growing electorate, which more than doubled the number of people identified as AAPI in the voter file, it said.
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"There will be many story lines out of this election and the most important to us is that our early investments in registering and turning out the AAPI community has paid precious dividends," said Shekar Narasimhan, chairman and founder of the AAPI Victory Fund.
"The miracle of our democracy is unfolding today as Asian Americans are voting in record numbers across the country and could provide a winning margin in states like Nevada and North Carolina to elect Hillary Clinton as our next president," said Dilawar Syed, co-founder and vice chair of the AAPI Victory Fund.
Syed said Trump and the Republicans debased immigrants and women and built their campaign on a platform of hate and fear against an entire faith with even denigrating an AAPI Gold Star family.
Using the newly created voter file to target AAPI voters, the AAPI Victory Fund published a number of online viral informational videos, including "What Does Donald Trump Think About Asians," targeted at AAPIs in swing states.
With nearly a half million views on Facebook alone, it is the most widely viewed AAPI targeted election ad in history.
A day earlier, the Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook credited Asian Americans as part of the "Clinton Coalition" of high early voter turnout.
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