AAPI victory fund to host Presidential forum |
The Asian American Victory Fund will host its first national Community Action Summit Sept. 8 at the Segerstrom Center in Costa Mesa, Calif., featuring several of the 24 Democratic presidential candidates. Though the full list of presidential attendees is still under embargo, Indian American political activist Shekar Narasimhan, chairman of the AAPI Victory Fund, hinted to India-West: “I fully expect all three of the Asian American candidates to show up.We want to be a vote bank, not a money bank,” he said. “This is going to be a game changer,” AAPI Victory Fund president Varun Nikore, said and added that nothing like this has ever remotely been done before. The 3,000-seat capacity Segerstrom Center is in Orange County, long a solidly Republican region. But Orange County turned blue in 2018: four Democrats flipped Republican-held House seats. The election was also a watershed moment for the Indian American community: Anaheim elected its first Sikh mayor, Harry Sidhu; Irvine elected its first Muslim city councilwoman Farrah Khan; and La Palma too got an Indian American council member: Nitesh Patel.
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