Jay Kansara replied that this was the first way Trump had united minorities.
New York:
A South Asian support group for Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden criticized President Donald Trump for tearing up communities and failing to speak out against white supremacy while a staunch Indian-American Trump supporter said he united the minority communities, opinions that highlighted a clash between Indians. -Americans on the policies of the two leaders.
Jay Kansara, former director of government relations at the Hindu American Foundation and supporter of Trump, said Trump has done very well with Hispanic voters even though Democrats are still trying to claim victory in states such as Michigan and Wisconsin .
He said it was an indication that Democrats “just haven’t accepted the reality that Trump … has in fact united the minority communities – African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans.”
Jay Kansara participated in a discussion during a virtual post-election political analysis organized by India’s leading non-profit community organization “Indiaspora”.
Responding strongly to Jay Kansara’s assertion, Biden’s South Asians Country Director Neha Dewan said, “I think we may live in different countries” when Jay Kansara says that Trump has truly united minority communities.
“Because I think this might be the first I’ve heard. Our community has certainly been torn apart by the ban on Muslims, the surge in hate crimes in our communities. So I don’t know where the Unity part of that comes into play. I must have slept for the past four years, ”said Neha Dewan.
She added that she “can’t really think of anything” about what Trump has done for “our community.”
“This is what we really heard from our community. Our community is suffering from COVID-19,” whether it was from the frontlines or small businesses that have suffered.
“And that’s just not it. Immigrants who are here legally and want a chance to live and all of a sudden (Trump is) suspend H-1B applications.”
Jay Kansara, holding up a sign saying ‘Indian Voices for Trump’, said he had voted for President Barack Obama twice, but couldn’t vote for Hillary Clinton because “I knew the damage she had inflicted on the world as Secretary of State, and I knew the damage Biden had done as Vice President. “
He claimed Trump actually had the backs of minority communities such as Asian Americans and added the president was for equity in education and equal opportunity.
Neha Dewan retaliated by saying, “Speaking of equity in education, I don’t know what that even means from this administration because all we’ve seen is just white supremacy. When you have the president d ‘a country that doesn’t even denounce white supremacy, I don’t even know where the minority piece comes from’.
She also added that with Trump it was: “If I win, it’s because I won. If I lose, it’s because they cheated.”
Now that it looks like Trump is losing, she said, ‘It can’t be because people didn’t speak up for me, it’s because they cheated and that’s what we see. Lawsuits after lawsuits, making things up. But that’s normal for the course, that’s to be expected. It’s not something new. I don’t think it’s a surprise to anyone. “
She noted, however, that it was surprising to see members of the Indo-American and South Asian communities fail to see and acknowledge the carnage inflicted on them by the Trump administration.
They just “blindly drink Kool-Aid and say, ‘well, this person has been amazing to our community and our unit.’ It amazes me.”
Jay Kansara responded that the first way Trump united minorities, especially first generation immigrants, is “against the idea that America will become a socialist country. And unfortunately the Democratic Party is no longer the party of the JFK (John F Kennedy) who was absolutely the most ardent enemy of Communism in his day as well as a great friend of India. “
“Most immigrants think they don’t want to stand in the net that Nancy Pelosi can distribute bread to them. They don’t want to stay home while their businesses have been closed due to these tough lockdowns while Nancy Pelosi can come to the living room again, ”he says.
Jay Kansara added that the “democratic dictatorship” must be countered and that the Republican Party has a very good chance of countering it in 2022.
He also added that Kamala Harris, Biden’s vice-candidate, could lose her seat when she runs for re-election to the Senate if there is a strong Republican candidate against her.
As Biden moves closer to securing Electoral College votes, Neha Dewan said there was a sense of hope in the campaign.
“It’s not over until it’s over but for the first time in so long we have hope.”
She said South Asians for Biden was formed in December 2019 and the group is also celebrating the progress we’ve made with our community in organizing, celebrating our differences, hand in hand, s ‘addressing people who have never voted before and who’ ‘took an interest.
“From a grassroots perspective we feel that we have won with our community and of course there is still a lot to do. This is a movement that I believe has started and there is a lot of hope to be done. for sure, ”she said.
