Posted on 10/06/2020 12:11:29 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Car parades will take place on Oct. 4 in the greater Los Angeles, San Francisco areas
AS the 2020 election enters its final, most crucial stage, Filipino American political leaders across California are ramping up last-ditch efforts to raise support for the presidential candidates.
On Sunday, Oct. 4, Filipino American conservatives and supporters of President Donald Trump are hosting a caravan rally across California as a way to raise support for Trump as well as celebrate Filipino American History Month in October.
The caravan rally was organized by former congressional candidate Edwin Duterte and National Federation of Filipino American Associations Greater Los Angeles area Chairman Noel Omega.
“Filipinos have a strong and rich history in the United States,” Omega said in a statement. “We are proud of the accomplishments within our community that [have] shaped the U.S.”
According to Duterte, the rally is also meant to serve as a “unifying event” to honor “the successes of the president from domestic to foreign policy.”
“If the Filipino American population were a state, we would be the 29th largest state,” said Duterte, who bears no relation to Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte.
The rally in Los Angeles will begin in the parking lot of the Jollibee restaurant in West Covina at 1561 E. Amar Road at 9 a.m. Organizers estimate that more than 100 cars from LA and Orange counties will participate in the event.
The organizers also emphasized that the event is in compliance with social distancing mandates.
As previously reported in the Asian Journal, Filipinos are the second-largest Asian group in the United States, comprising 19% (just under 4 million Filipinos) of the overall Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community, according to the last census.
The 2020 Asian American Voter Survey from APIA Vote, AAPI Data and Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC also found that Filipinos are the most “enthusiastic” for the 2020 election among other AAPI groups, as previously reported in the Asian Journal. Filipinos are also the second-largest Asian ethnic group supporting Trump in 2020, the study also found.
Though California — an unyielding blue state — is currently showcasing overwhelming support for Trump’s opponent former Vice President Joe Biden, founder and CEO of Asian Industry B2B Marc Ang said in the statement that, “Fil-Ams are recognizing their conservatism and entrepreneurship is more inline [sic] with the Republican Party and are throwing support behind President Donald Trump.”
Currently, Biden is leading in California at 60 points with Trump trailing far behind at 30 points, according to a recent survey from the Public Policy Institute of California. Another study from UC Berkeley released on Friday, Sept. 25 puts Biden at 67 points and Trump at 28 points.
Asian Americans could play a significant role in this election.
Edwin Duterte = No relation to current P.I. President.
He’s almost certainly a relative of the President, though probably very distant.
Duterte is an odd name in the Phils. It is French, not Spanish. Not a lot of Frenchmen came to the country. And especially so as the name is attested very early, at least by the early 19th century, in Cebu and Zamboanga, the hot-spots for the Duterte name. It is also not a Claveria list name (the names the Spanish required the Filipinos to choose from when they were required to adopt apellidos, before which nearly all Filipinos went by a single name) which means it was given initially by marriage to a foreigner, and subsequent baptism of the children. I think all Dutertes in the Philippines probably are also descendants of the same man, some Frenchman of 200-300+ years ago.
In Europe the Duterte name is quite rare, with the vast majority attested in and around Tourcoing, near Lille, in Northern France. Perhaps it is no accident in this case that the region was part of the Spanish Netherlands until it was taken by Louis XIV.
well considering that many Asians thrive with their small businesses (supermarkets/electronic stores/convenience stores/salons/happy ending massage parlors etc...) and small business suffers the most from the lockdowns—it’s natural that they would gravitate to the candidate who offers them the best opportunity for success.
Nice...Hope CA will be closer!!!
We need to get those congressional seats back in the red column
Beyond that, many send funds to family in the Philippines; they don’t want to see it re-directed through socialist taxes to non-working welfarians here.
I have never met an Asian over 16 without a job. Honestly.
I hope MD, NY, VA and CA all get tighter.
Thanks for a great post. One of my hobbies is onomastics. Although I haven’t studied Filipino surnames in any detail, I was at least familiar with the Claveria list.
Anything more you can tell us about your sources?
I spend a lot of time on the Forebears web site, which has tons of data about name frequencies around the world.
You want to know the top 200 surnames in Abkhazia? Visit Forebears.
I saw a video of their parade, and it was impressive. Hundreds of cars.
I also saw a parade of Armenians For Trump, also in California.
I don’t think Trump has a real chance to win California, but it interesting just how much pro-Trump activity is going on there. Every weekend there is a march of Trump supporters through Beverly Hills, that looks like about 500 people.
If all the republicans in California that always sit out presidenital elections go out and vote that will significantly boost Trump’s popular vote total, which is important.
IT”S DOABLE HERE IN ORANGE COUNTY!!
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We lost this seat to early Rouda in 2018 when bought and paid for by BLOOMBERG.... not this time..., we can take this back! IM SERIOUS! Any support from fellow FREEPERS across the nation will carry us across the finish line, its that close within margin of error...
Looking for big turnout by WOMAN! ASIANS in OC!!!
Basically just web searches.
This site is excellent for the subjects it covers.
http://www.filipinogenealogy.com/
I am no genealogist, that is a job for my mother. She has uncovered a great deal of interest in her work.
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