For some years Asian Americans have strongly favoured the Democratic Party with their votes. The main reasons for this were that when they came to America, they settled mostly in large cities run by the Democratic Party in Democrat states. The Democratic Party claimed them as minority people that were part of the Democratic coalition of voters, or the “Rainbow Coalition.” The Party organised to help newcomers and get them to vote. Finally, Asian Americans followed models including Asians that won elective office in the United States that were predominantly Democrats.

As a result, Asians mustered with the Democratic Party and voted for Democrats by a more than a two to one ratio over Republicans.

Who are these Asian Americans that aligned with the Democratic Party? The U.S. government defines them as people born in East, Southeast, South Asia and Pacific Islanders. In numbers, Chinese are the largest, followed by Indians, and Filipinos. Altogether there are 20 countries represented among Asian Americans. Including residents of Hawaii, they count 17.8 million and are 7 percent of the U.S. population.

Among them Indian Americans favoured Democrats the most followed by Filipinos and Koreans. Chinese favour Democrats, but less so. Vietnamese were the only Asians to fancy the Republican Party (owing to blaming Democrat leaders’ policies during the Vietnam War). Younger people favoured Democrats. Women were more strongly Democrat than Republicans by a big margin. Older arrivals have supported the Democratic Party somewhat less.

This began to change with the 2020 and 2022 elections. It was even more pronounced in 2023. This is important because Asians are the........

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