At least 25 per cent of South Asian Americans who voted for US President Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election plan to support Democratic candidates in the November 3 midterm elections, according to a survey.
The survey found that 67 per cent of South Asian Americans who voted for Trump still backed the Republicans, but 25 per cent said they would support Democrats.
Vasant Bhatt, a 21-year-old second-generation Indian American who had interned on Senator Ted Cruz’s election campaign in 2024, said in a social media post that had voted for Talarico. The survey also highlighted concerns over discrimination, with 90 per cent of registered voters saying they had experienced discrimination or knew someone who had, including 48 per cent who said they had personally faced it. Overall, 78 per cent of those surveyed said their vote could bring about change, while 79 per cent felt elected officials quickly lost touch with ordinary people. Another 67 per cent said public officials did not care about the views of people like them, and 43 per cent felt they had no say in government decisions. Earlier reporting noted: Donald Trump loses support among South Asian American supporters ahead of November midterms, poll finds A new survey finds US President Donald Trump has lost a significant chunk of his support among South Asian American voters, with 25% of those who voted for him in the 2024 presidential election planning to vote for the Democratic Party in the crucial November midterm election. Earlier reporting noted: In addition, 60% of South Asians plan to support the Democratic Party as it battles to wrest control of the House of Representatives and the Senate from Trump’s Republican Party, according to the poll conducted by HIT Strategies. Earlier reporting noted: Almost 90% of respondents said discrimination against Muslim Americans is at least a moderate problem, alongside 70% for Sikh Americans and 64% of Hindu Americans.
“It comes as no surprise that a quarter of Trump’s 2024 voters in our community plan to vote Democratic.
This community can make the margin, and we are working to reach every voter who can,” Chintan Patel, executive director of Indian American Impact, said in a statement.
