Donald Trump, a Republican, is arrested by Democratic candidate Joe Biden (File)
Washington:
With less than 50 hours to go before the US presidential election, Indo-American supporters of President Donald Trump and his Democratic rival Joe Biden stepped up their campaigns on Sunday, especially in battlefield states, asking members of the community to go out and vote and support their respective leaders.
Trump, a Republican, is seeking re-election to the White House in the November 3 presidential election. He is arrested by Democratic candidate Joe Biden.
Unlike in previous years, the Indian-Americans campaign this time limited their campaigns to the digital realm and telephone banking services due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Both campaigns have plans to step up their phone calls to Indo-American supporters, messaging them on WhatsApp and contacting them through other social media and emails.
Indo-American supporters of President Trump’s campaign have staged a few community events, including a fire talk led by Indian Voices for Trump with Nikki Haley, the former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations.
The President’s two sons – Donald J Trump Jr and Eric Trump respectively engaged with the community at a dating event in New York and Atlanta, Georgia. Trump’s daughter-in-law Lara Trump paid floral tributes to the Mahatma Gandhi statue with members of the Sikhs for Trump and India Voices for Trump.
The reach of the Biden campaign has been mainly in the virtual realm. Former Vice President Joe Biden and his running mate Kamala Harris hosted a special Indian Independence Day event for American Indians.
Biden and Harris have welcomed Native Americans at various festivals, including the recently concluded Navaratri.
Biden also wrote an op-ed in the ethnic newspaper India West, claiming his close connection to the community and his close ties to India.
At least two recent surveys have indicated that the majority of Indian Americans support Biden. But they also indicated that the Indian-American base of support for Democrats had shrunk a bit and started to shift towards the Trump campaign.
Another survey by Al Mason of the Trump campaign claimed that in battlefield states, at least 50% of Indian Americans who voted Democrats in 2016 would vote Trump this electoral cycle.
Engaged in outreach with messages – to Indo-American voters in the battlefield states of Florida, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Texas and Wisconsin, Sridhar Chityala, who sits on the advisory board of Indian Voices for Trump Coalition, said its campaign activities were very different. the perfect message of the Democratic Party structured with public opinions – not political or personal opinions – that resonate.
“How else do you see 30 million impressions so far on the video four 4 More years – plus grassroots level contributions,” he said, referring to a Modi-Trump video posted by Donald J. Trump Jr and Kimberly Guilfoyle, a senior campaign official, at the Republican Convention in August.
Neha Dewan, national director of South Asians at Biden, said former Vice President Joe Biden and Senator Kamala Harris had made unprecedented efforts to reach out to the South Asian community in this election and win our votes.
Ajay Bhutoria, who flew from California to Philadelphia to attend the launch of Biden’s presidential campaign nearly 18 months ago, said Biden and Harris understood the South Asian community best and would be the country’s best friends. India and American Indians.
Indo-American relations have never been better than under President Trump and his administration, said Al Mason of the Trump campaign. It was under his administration that for the first time “we had an Indian American filing cabinet,” he said.
“He (Trump) is a reliable friend of India,” prominent community leader Sudhir Parikh said.
Community leaders from both campaigns said large numbers of people were working around the clock by phone or other digital means to reach the community.
While Americans of Indian descent raised millions for both campaigns, and a number of them campaigned aggressively for both, the actual vote percentage for the community is well below average. national.
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