Record Asian American turnout helped Biden win Georgia. Can it help flip the Senate?
When Long Tran, a liberal organizer of Vietnamese descent, hosted a meet-and-greet for Georgia Democrat Jon Ossoff in early 2017, he was hoping in part to engage more Asian Americans like himself in politics.
Not a single other Asian person showed up to his event.
Nearly four years later, that has dramatically changed. Georgias hand recount and vote certification confirmed that Asian American and Pacific Islander voters who make up the fastest-growing demographic in Georgia helped swing the state for the Democrats for the first time since 1992.
While AAPI voters comprise only about 4 percent of Georgias population, that amounts to roughly 238,000 eligible voters, more than enough to determine races in the narrowly divided state. Georgia saw a 91 percent increase in AAPI voter turnout over 2016, according to an analysis by the Democratic firm TargetSmart, and exit polls showed Asian American voters preferred Joe Biden to President Trump by 2 to 1.
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