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For two years, Democrats' radical agenda has wreaked destruction on our country. On Tuesday, voters will finally have a chance to hold them accountable—and Asian Americans can play a key role in reversing Democrats' dangerous course. As the fastest-growing racial or ethnic group in the U.S., Asian Americans can be the decisive factor in crucial races from Nevada to Georgia and California to New York. The stakes could not be higher.
Democrats have caused misery for Asian-American families with their $1.9 trillion tax-and-spend spree, which caused the price of gas and groceries to skyrocket. Asian American workers have effectively taken a pay cut as wages fail to keep up with rising prices, and inflation is expected to cost the average family more than $8,700 over the next year even if prices stop rising today. The cost of running a small business is only going up, too. Under Joe Biden, wholesale inflation has been above 5 percent year-over-year for 18 straight months. This had a disproportionate effect on the Asian-American community, considering 10 percent of businesses are Asian-owned. But rather than focus on solutions to inflation like cutting spending, Democrats voted to hire 87,000 new IRS agents to audit families and small businesses.
Democrats have also endangered Asian-American families by continuing to release criminals without consequence. This year, a 70-year-old Chinese-American woman in San Francisco was beaten and kicked by a group of thugs. An Asian-American ride-share driver in Oakland was killed in broad daylight. And in Daly City, California, a 69-year-old Asian-American man was pistol-whipped and robbed in front of his daughter's home. These attacks are just the tip of the iceberg, but they all have one thing in common: they all happened in Democrat-run cities. Soft-on-crime Democrats are on record supporting the "defund the police" movement and followed through by slashing police budgets. Asian-American voters are sick of feeling unsafe in their own neighborhoods. That's why they stood up to Democrats and successfully recalled San Francisco's radical district attorney earlier this year, and they'll hold Democrats accountable on Election Day for bringing lawlessness to their communities.
As if this weren't bad enough, Democrats consistently defend discrimination against Asian students in school admissions policies. The Biden administration has called those who oppose such discrimination in college admissions "extreme." Previously, the administration asked the Supreme Court to decide in favor of discriminatory policies at Harvard that try to achieve "racial balancing" by lowering Asian applicants' chances of being admitted. But nothing could be more "extreme" than deciding whether students can go to school based on their race. Republicans are fighting back. Reps. Michelle Steel and Young Kim, two of the first Korean-American women in Congress, have been staunch defenders of Asian students against these discriminatory policies. They, along with 80 of their Republican colleagues, filed an amicus brief in support of ending race-based college admissions. Republicans are focused on expanding opportunity in education and believe academic merit should be the only factor in school admissions so no students have to face discrimination because of their race.
Unlike Democrats, Republicans don't take Asian-American voters for granted. Our party is running the most diverse slate of candidates this year. The Republican National Committee has opened five Asian Pacific American community centers across the country to have conversations directly with Asian American voters. We've made this multi-million-dollar investment to take our message to the communities left behind by Democrats. Polling shows our investments are paying off; Democrats are losing ground with the AAPI community while Republicans are winning on the issues that matter to Asian voters.
Asian Americans are moving toward the GOP because they are recognizing the values and priorities the party shares. Restoring economic prosperity, the rule of law, and academic excellence in our great nation are on the ballot. Asian Americans have the chance to make it happen.
Ronna McDaniel is Chair of the Republican National Committee.
The views expressed in this article are the writer's own.
