Trump may be losing some South Asian voters ahead of US midterms
At least 25% of South Asian Americans who voted for US President Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election plan to back Democratic candidates in the November 3 midterm elections, according to a survey by advocacy group Indian American Impact. Among respondents who voted for Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election, 96% said they planned to vote for a Democratic candidate in the upcoming polls. Vasant Bhatt, a 21-year-old second-generation Indian-American who interned on Senator Ted Cruz’s election campaign in 2024, said in a social media post that he had voted for Talarico. As many as 90% of registered voters said they had experienced discrimination or knew someone who had, while 48% said they had personally faced it. 79% felt elected officials quickly lost touch with ordinary people While 78% of respondents believed their vote could bring about change. Another 67% said public officials did not care about the views of people like them, while 43% felt they had no say in government decisions. Earlier reporting noted: Donald Trump loses support among South Asian American supporters ahead of November midterms, poll finds A new survey finds US President Donald Trump has lost a significant chunk of his support among South Asian American voters, with 25% of those who voted for him in the 2024 presidential election planning to vote for the Democratic Party in the crucial November midterm election. Earlier reporting noted: In addition, 60% of South Asians plan to support the Democratic Party as it battles to wrest control of the House of Representatives and the Senate from Trump’s Republican Party, according to the poll conducted by HIT Strategies. Earlier reporting noted: Almost 90% of respondents said discrimination against Muslim Americans is at least a moderate problem, alongside 70% for Sikh Americans and 64% of Hindu Americans.
The survey also pointed to widespread concerns about discrimination. It also highlighted a broader sense of disillusionment with elected representatives.
“It comes as no surprise that a quarter of Trump’s 2024 voters in our community plan to vote Democratic.
This community can make the margin, and we are working to reach every voter who can,” Chintan Patel, executive director of Indian American Impact, said in a statement.