US Presidential Election 2024: Indian Americans divided over Vivek Ramaswamy, Nikki Haley
US Polls 2024: Vivek Ramaswamy's Silicon Valley fundraiser dinner to cost ₹41 lakh per ticket. More details here Indian Americans account for around 2.1 million or around 16 percent of the 13.4 million Asian Americans eligible to vote and are the third largest Asian-origin population behind Chinese and Filipino Americans, reported New York Times.
Pew Research data suggests that Indian Americans have tended to be more democratic than any other Asian American subgroup. The report added Indian Americans account for a small percentage of the voters they can still make a big difference in swing states and purple constituencies like Florida, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Nevada.
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It noted that many of the voters were worried that Ramaswamy's vow to dismantle the Education of Department could destroy the same institutions that had been critical to the success of the Indian Americans. Suresh Reddy, a centrist Democrat and city councilman, told New York Times that he watched the Republican presidential primary with a mix of pride and disappointment.
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