Asian Americans drifting toward GOP, NYT admits

Asian American voters are gradually drifting toward the Republican Party in state and nationwide elections amid increasing frustration with left-wing education policies and growing GOP outreach efforts.

The New York Times highlighted the shift showing Republicans gaining ground with the expanding voter bloc in nationwide contests since earning a recent low of 18% support in 2016, when former President Donald Trump won election.

Trump, for his part, rebounded considerably with the Asian American community, earning 30% of their support in his 2020 reelection bid. Republicans expanded on those gains to earn 32% from the demographic in the 2022 midterms.

In more localized contests, the trend is more pronounced. Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott managed to win a majority of Asian American voters in the state for his 2022 reelection bid, earning 52% support to Democratic challenger Beto O'Rourke's 46%.

Former New York GOP gubernatorial candidate Lee Zeldin, meanwhile, won Brooklyn's Sunset Park Chinatown, an area that had long been a Democratic bastion.

The outlet attributed much of the change to the Asian American community's discontent with Democratic Party policies on crime and education issues. Proposals to abandon meritocratic admission methods to elite schools do not appear to sit well with a community that traditionally performs well in those metrics.

The Times further called attention to a growing class divide that appears to transcend race in terms of its implications for political affiliations. While the college educated increasingly skew toward the Democrats, white working-class voters have overwhelmingly backed the GOP. That divide appears to translate to both the Asian American and Latino communities.

Ben Whedon is an editor and reporter for Just the News. Follow him on Twitter.