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These Asian American Candidates Want to Make America Great Again
The Free Press ^ | 11/5/2023 | By Peter Savodnik and Kiran Sampath

Posted on 11/07/2023 11:59:04 AM PST by NohSpinZone

Like presidential contender Vivek Ramaswamy and Hung Cao, running against Tim Kaine for the Senate in Virginia, Qiu marks the rise of a new kind of Republican—one who speaks the language of MAGA (railing against our “endless migrant crisis” and “open border”) but is younger, less angry, more ecumenical, and from a minority group that has historically voted with the Democratic Party.

“We’re expanding the boundaries of the MAGA agenda,” Kenny Xu, who is running in the Republican primary in North Carolina’s Thirteenth Congressional District, said in a phone interview.

Xu, the 26-year-old author of School of Woke: How Critical Race Theory Infiltrated American Schools and Why We Must Reclaim Them, said Asian Americans’ rightward lurch was born of a feeling of betrayal.

His family immigrated to the United States in the eighties, and he was born in Maryland. “My parents voted for Obama in 2008, and like many immigrant families, mine had bought into the narrative that a diverse president represented us,” he said.

But in college, things changed. He meant the rise of identity politics, the racial splintering—what he saw as a not-so-subtle discrimination against excellence and, really, Asians. (Xu’s experience of being rejected by Princeton and the University of Pennsylvania, despite having a 4.4 GPA and scoring 2310 out of 2400 on his SAT, helped form this view.)

“The people who don’t speak out are the ones who get taken advantage of,” Xu said.


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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: asianamerican; candidates; elections; maga
I have given to Kenny Xu's organization, Color Us United, which was very active in getting the Supreme Court to overturn affirmative action in university admissions. Praying he wins today but as a first-time candidate, it might be a stretch, especially in a Dimm-leaning district.
1 posted on 11/07/2023 11:59:04 AM PST by NohSpinZone
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I’m sure they have America’s best interest at heart


2 posted on 11/07/2023 12:02:11 PM PST by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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To: NohSpinZone

But do they know kung fu?


3 posted on 11/07/2023 12:04:57 PM PST by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: NohSpinZone

The NC-13th under the lines next year will be Republican. Should produce a 11R-3D margin for the state, up from the present 7R-7D tie. Will have to make up for several stolen districts expected next year.


4 posted on 11/07/2023 12:07:20 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (America Owes Anita Bryant An Enormous Apology)
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Oh! I spaced, thinking the election was today for some reason. Dumb. Thank you for the clarification.


5 posted on 11/07/2023 12:08:52 PM PST by NohSpinZone (First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
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sum ting wong


6 posted on 11/07/2023 12:09:13 PM PST by bankwalker (Repeal the 19th ...)
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To: NohSpinZone

MAGA’s bringing in Merit and Decency...

Democrats push power based on “Kink, Kolor, and Kin (rich Daddy)

It’s why we’ll make American Great Again and why Democrats will turn states into democrat hellholes like the cities they run.

Prayers for Kenny Xu’s win.


7 posted on 11/07/2023 12:13:57 PM PST by GOPJ (The reason Biden won't protect our border is he wants cash kickbacks for doing it. )
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To: GOPJ

He’ll be a Xu in.


8 posted on 11/07/2023 12:18:59 PM PST by x (Formerly Twitter.)
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To: NohSpinZone

I would be nice if this article mention the full name of the man this is about.


9 posted on 11/07/2023 12:20:08 PM PST by jroehl (And how we burned in the camps later - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - The Gulag Archipelago)
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LOL - good one x


10 posted on 11/07/2023 12:22:07 PM PST by GOPJ (The reason Biden won't protect our border is he wants cash kickbacks for doing it. )
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To: NohSpinZone

Sure, no problem.


11 posted on 11/07/2023 12:24:14 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (America Owes Anita Bryant An Enormous Apology)
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To: jroehl

It would also be good to describe these candidates’ worldviews. In fact ALL candidates’ worldviews.


12 posted on 11/07/2023 12:38:39 PM PST by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose GOD is the LORD. (Psalm 33:12))
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To: NWFree

Do they know Grasshopper? Do they know that Everybody is Kung Fu Fighting?


13 posted on 11/07/2023 12:50:22 PM PST by Patriot Babe
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This is a well written good article.

That’s rare nowadays.


14 posted on 11/07/2023 1:22:52 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: x

Ouch.


15 posted on 11/07/2023 1:35:06 PM PST by sauropod (The obedient always think of themselves as virtuous rather than cowardly.)
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To: NWFree

You’ve been misled. Not everybody was kung fu fighting!


16 posted on 11/07/2023 5:00:59 PM PST by griswold3 (Truth, Beauty and Goodness )
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To: Patriot Babe

See #16


17 posted on 11/07/2023 5:02:04 PM PST by griswold3 (Truth, Beauty and Goodness )
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