by Sanders and Warren might have influenced this endorsement?

Trump could be turning Asian Americans into reliable Democratic voters (May 13, 2019)

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"In the 2014 midterm elections, 49 percent of Asian American voters backed a Democratic House candidate, according to exit polls. But in 2018, that number shot up to 77 percent.

It was a massive surge — and it’s a trend that’s been building for some time: As the Republican Party has moved to the right, especially on issues like immigration, Asian American voters are increasingly aligning themselves with Democrats. Since 2016, Trump’s presidency has only amplified this shift, with the White House’s focus on anti-immigrant policy putting voters off even more.

The administration’s onslaught has been multi-pronged: Efforts to restrict H-1B visas, ongoing attacks on undocumented immigrants (roughly 1.7 million of whom are Asian) and attempts to add a citizenship question to the US census are just a few of the policies that have hurt Republicans’ standing with Asian American voters, according to Columbia University sociology professor Van Tran.

While far from all Asian Americans feel this way — there’s a contingent that continues to back both Trump and the GOP — a majority disapprove of his presidency.

"All signs point to a heightened level of interest in politics and a pushback against the Trump administration among Asian Americans,” says Karthick Ramakrishnan, a UC Riverside political science professor who runs a survey on Asian American voters. In addition to the policies Trump has proposed, “there’s the rhetoric that ranges from racially insensitive to outright racist,” Ramakrishnan notes."


https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/5/13/18308137/asian-american-voters-immigration-democrats-donald-trump

island territories, so this was nice to see but not surprising. I've read that a majority of Asian American voters used to vote conservative up to the 1990s or so, many having fled communist socialist regimes or with family backgrounds in those nations, but they've been voting Democrat more and more as America's right wing has become increasingly extreme.

Trump's various insults to the millions of Americans living in our island territories aren't just extremely offensive of course, but indicate grave threat to them. They know what side of the GOP's nativist spite fence they'd be on.

As far as the Democratic Party's concerned, that's America's side.