Crime Concerns Drove Asian Americans Away From New York Democrats

[brooklynite]

New York Times

Asian Americans have typically formed a crucial and reliable voting bloc for Democrats in recent years, helping the party maintain its political dominance in liberal states like New York.

But Republicans shattered that presumption in November when they came within striking distance of winning the governor’s race in New York for the first time in 15 years, buoyed in part by a surge of support among Asian American voters in southern Brooklyn and eastern Queens.

Now, Democrats are trying to determine how they can stem — and, if possible, reverse — the growing tide of Asian American voters drifting away from the party amid a feeling that their concerns are being overlooked.

Interviews with more than 20 voters of Asian descent, many of them Chinese Americans who had historically voted for Democrats but did not in 2022, found that many went with the Republican candidate for governor, Lee Zeldin, even if begrudgingly, largely because of concerns about crime.

[nycbos]

1. This OP-Ed was written about the SF DA recall...

... but it's about a similar subject.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/sf-democrats-asian-americans-17218618.php

It's behind a pay Wall so you might not be able to read it. But the gist is that there is a feeling with some members of the Asian American community that progressives talk at them rather than listen to them.

We cannot ignore their concerns about crime and expect they're gonna vote for us.

[The_Casual_Observer]

2. Once the elections are over the crime wave bullshit stops until the

Next election.