USA survey says only 22% Indian Americans to vote Trump |
Just 15 days before US Presidential elections on 3rd November, a major survey in the US shows that almost half of Indian Americans remain steadfastly Democratic despite the apparent courtship between Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Donald Trump. Out of the people surveyed 68 percent plan to vote for Democratic candidate Joe Biden and 22 percent for Trump. The survey conducted by Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Johns Hopkins University, and the University of Pennsylvania was released on 14th October. It shows that a majority of the 4.1 million-strong Indian-American community favours Indian-origin Kamala Harris as Democrat Vice Presidential candidate. Indian Americans have traditionally voted for the Democratic Party — as many as 93 percent voted for Barack Obama in 2008. The Democrats have, however, been incrementally losing the community`s votes to the Republicans in every election since then. The survey was conducted in September on a representative sample of 1,200 Indian-Americans said Indian- Americans favour the Democratic Party to the Republican Party by a greater than a two-to-one margin. Two-thirds of Democratic Indian Americans opposed Trump`s restrictions on travel to the United States for citizens from Muslim-majority countries. Interestingly, the only topic on which Democratic and Republican Indian Americans converge is university admissions. Roughly half of both groups oppose affirmative action in higher education.
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