Harris pens op-ed in AAPI diaspora newspapers urging voters to 'fight for our freedoms”
In the final sprint to Election Day, Vice President Harris wrote a series of columns across five Asian American newspapers calling on members of the 15 million-voter-strong constituency to join her in the “fight for our freedoms.”
“There is so much at stake in this election, and Americans are ready to turn the page on the chaos of the past. You deserve a leader who not only sees you, but stands with you,” Harris wrote in each column.
The columns ran in five news outlets: the World Journal, which serves Chinese Americans; the Asian Journal, which serves Filipino Americans; Yonhap News Agency, which serves Korean Americans; The Juggernaut, which serves South Asians; and Việt Báo Daily News, which serves Vietnamese Americans. They were published between Thursday and Sunday.
Harris tailored each of the five columns to the specific ethnicity that the papers catered to in an effort to speak to each community specifically.
With Vietnamese Americans, Harris invoked the stories of many in the community who fled to the U.S. as South Vietnam fell to the Viet Cong in 1975.
“As we approach the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon, we reflect on the extraordinary journey of........
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