The Supreme Court‘s weakening of the Voting Rights Act in the Louisiana v. Callais ruling has led to much anxiety about the representation of African American voters in the Deep South. But leaders in the Asian American community are also warning that the ruling could affect the Democratic Party‘s ability to galvanize their voters with less than six months until the midterm elections.At a recent Asian American Pacific Islander Victory Fund gala, leaders cautioned Democrats against taking their vote for granted.“The education curve for not only Asians themselves, but all of our allies, our partners in the South, or even nationally working with our democratic partners, we still aren’t understood as part of this progressive fabric,” said Linh Nguyen, president and CEO of AAPI Victory Power Fund.
“When we’re talking to these Asian communities, and specifically in states like Georgia, their baseline understanding is … low,” Nguyen, a former AAPI outreach director for the 2021 campaigns of Sens. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) and Jon Ossoff (D-GA), continued. “But it’s also because they don’t get the outreach from either side. And that’s been the consistent trend, where they don’t hear from us as Democrats, they don’t hear from Republicans.”
