Donald Trump seeks re-election to White House in November 3 presidential election
Oak Creek:
There has been a “remarkable shift” in the Sikh community’s support for President Donald Trump, mainly due to his policies which have helped small businesses in America and strengthen Indo-American relations, according to community leaders. .
Trump, a Republican is seeking re-election to the White House in the November 3 presidential election. A significant number of Sikhs are based in some of the states of Michigan, Wisconsin, Florida, and Pennsylvania.
“Most of us in the Midwest are businessmen. And they’re all for President Trump,” Darshan Singh Dhaliwal, a successful entrepreneur and prominent Sikh leader from the Milwaukee area of Wisconsin, told PTI.
He said Sikhs nationally and especially in the region support Trump because of his efforts to strengthen relations with India and his friendship with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
“That cannot be said about (Senator) Kamala Harris,” Dhaliwal said.
Harris is the Democratic Party’s running mate.
“Trump is for India. Kamala Harris is (originally) Indian, but she is against India,” he said, adding: “These are two big reasons why we are with Trump.”
“My fear is that if Trump is not reelected to the White House, China is going to push us hard enough,” he said.
Jassee Singh, of Sikhs for Trump, an organization he formed in 2016 to gain support for the Republican president, said: “There has been a remarkable shift in the Sikh community’s support for Trump.”
“In 2016, few in our community supported Trump. This time around I have a feeling that a majority of Sikhs would vote for Trump,” he said, adding that there is a wave of support for Trump from the Sikh community.
Singh, who is from Maryland, said that at a time when every vote counts, the Sikh community can play an important role in re-electing the president.
Jaswinder Singh Jassi, President of Sikh Gurdwara Silvis in Illinois, said Sikhs support Trump this time in a big way because of the work he has done for the small business community and his efforts to strengthen Indo relations -american.
Dismissing Democrats’ claims that hate crimes against Sikhs have increased under the Trump administration, Dhaliwal said: “When someone says hate crime. Ask them where they saw it.”
Dhaliwal said he has lived in America for almost 50 years and that “I haven’t seen a hate crime. When we see something small happening to us, we try to think of it as a hate crime.”
Incidentally, a white supremacist opened fire inside the Oak Creek gurdwara in Winconsin, killing six people. A Sikh priest who was injured in the shooting that left him paralyzed later died.
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