'With Texas, Georgia and Florida considered swing states in the 2020 election cycle, Vietnamese Americans could play a key role at the margins this November,' Baoky Vu writes for CNNOpinion
Baoky Vu, a Vietnamese American, is vice-chairman of the DeKalb County Board of Voter Registration and Elections. He previously served as Commissioner to President George W. Bush's Presidential Advisory Commission on Asian-Americans and Pacific Islanders. The views expressed in this commentary are his own. View more opinion on CNN.
With Elections Day less than 100 days away, and President Donald Trump underwater in national polling averages, he is once again relying on his mastery of sowing discord to divide the nation and to distract the American public from his irresponsible leadership throughout this pandemic. Baoky VuOne possible distraction? Closing the Chinese consulate in Houston, which resulted in the Chinese shuttering the US consulate in Chengdu. And for one sliver of Trump's base -- Vietnamese Americans, many of whom harbor anti-Chinese sentiment -- the escalation of tension with the Chinese was just what they might be looking for.Vietnamese Americans, particularly those over the age of 50, have been loyal Republicans for decades.
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