Democratic Senate candidates Raphael Warnock, left, and Jon Ossoff gesture toward a crowd during a campaign rally on Nov. 15, 2020, in Marietta, Ga.Ann Le, who's Vietnamese American, said the past four years was a wakeup call.
As early voting began Monday, Georgia Democrats said they're aiming to engage the politically active group to help elect Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff. Aisha Yaqoob Mahmood, director of the Asian American Advocacy Fund, said the district had undergone a demographic shift, with many newly naturalized immigrants and newly eligible voters. Outreach is likely to have played a large role in getting Asian Americans, and specifically first-time voters, to the ballot box, the research showed.
"They've got some great folks on the ground who know what they're doing. They know how to organize within the Asian American community," Park said."But also, I think, which is important to note, they have long-standing ties and relationships to Asian American communities, given that they're from these communities here in Georgia."
For example, parts of Forsyth County that lie in the 7th District conduct their elections entirely in English, while Gwinnett County runs its elections bilingually in English and Spanish. Asian language assistance often goes unaccounted for by the counties, and organizations have to fill the gap. Mahmood also said the circumstances of the last four years had prompted many immigrant communities in the area to take political action. She said that from concerns around health care during the Covid-19 pandemic to education and jobs in this trying time to other issues, including Trump's Muslim travel restrictions, many Asian American communities have"felt attacked from all different angles.
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