Nearly 3 in 4 AAPIs accuse Trump of anti-Asian hatred, poll finds

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Most Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs) accuse former President Donald Trump of the discrimination the community faces amid the COVID-19 crisis, a new poll shows.

Poll Results: The new poll, conducted by Politico and intelligence firm Morning Consult, found 71% of AAPI adults blame Trump for the current wave of anti-Asian discrimination against the community. This is the highest percentage of blame directed at an individual, Politico noted.

By ethnicity, Chinese respondents blamed Trump the most (66%), followed by Japanese (63%), Koreans (59%), Vietnamese (54%), Indians (52%) and Filipinos (49 %). Pacific Islanders were the least likely to blame the former president (38%), although 55% consistently cited him as a major or minor reason for the discrimination.

Conservative Chinese Americans have hailed Trump’s entry into politics, but have grown increasingly disappointed with his anti-China rhetoric. Cliff Li, who heads the Asian American Republicans National Committee, officially endorsed Joe Biden a week before the November 2020 election. Some conservatives feel like we’re part of the team, but why are you- you suddenly turned against us? Li told Politico. So, you know, feeling like they were being used.

The poll, which interviewed 2,000 AAPI adults in June, had other key findings. On the one hand, it found that around two in 10 AAPIs were more likely to identify with the community than before COVID-19, a promising sign for political mobilization, according to poll organizers.

Leading the News: From the start of the pandemic until the rest of his tenure, Trump has regularly referred to COVID-19 as the Chinese virus, the Wuhan virus, or the Kung flu. Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco found that his very first tweet using the term Chinese virus resulted in an increase in anti-Asian hashtags, which they believe have a plausible connection to the hate crimes that followed.

Stop AAPI Hate, a national coalition that tracks anti-Asian incidents, received 9081 reports between March 19, 2020 and June 30, 2021. However, this figure may be far from the exact figures as experts suspect underreporting massive.

In May 2021, Trump was sued for libel and emotional suffering by the Chinese American Civil Rights Coalition (CACRC), which claimed that his use of sinophobic terms directly contributed to the rise in violence against Chinese and other Americans in Asian origin. The group wants the former president to pay every Asian American dollar, for an estimated total of $ 22.9 million, that would be used to build an AAPI-centric museum.

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