Democrat Jay Chen is challenging Republican incumbent Michelle Steel in a district where more than a third of voters are Asian Americans. But some of the accusations being hurled, specifically around China and communism, have frustrated voters.
Jay Chen, a Taiwanese American, is challenging Rep. Michelle Steel, a Korean American, in an Orange County district.As the midterms loom, one key House race in California is drawing significant attention both to Asian Americans in the district, and from them.
“I think here, we’re seeing a wake-up call,” Connie Chung Joe, chief executive of Asian Americans Advancing Justice Southern California, told NBC News. “But I think still within this country as a whole, there’s this lack of recognition and understanding about the importance and value of the Asian American voter.”
who in 2020 became one of the first three Korean American women elected to Congress, came to the U.S. when she was in her early 20s, opening a clothing store with her family. Before being elected to Congress, she served as supervisor and chairwoman of the Orange County Board of Supervisors. Chen’s campaign said that roughly 40% of its staff is Asian American and Pacific Islander, and that it has a dedicated Vietnamese outreach coordinator. It said it has
Steel has also cited in campaign videos and press releases Chen’s 2010 vote in favor of creating a Mandarin program, funded by the Confucius Institute, a network of Chinese language and culture centers partially backed by the Chinese government. They began opening up in the U.S. during the Bush administration and aroused suspicion. By 2020, the State Department designated the institutes “as a foreign mission of the People’s Republic of China.
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