google了這人 Cliff Li,他是資深共和黨員,也是這網站的頭,2016年是川普競選團
隊的顧問之一,也幫前佛州共和黨州長競選過。
共和黨其實還不少人不支持川普,這不是新聞。
the New Yorker剛好寫一篇報導,最後一段花了大篇幅採訪他,讀了就了解他的心路歷程
這篇題目是 Are Asian Americans the last undecided voters?
"亞裔美國人是最後還未決定要投誰的選民嗎?"
https://tinyurl.com/y5t9pnkp 原文很長,只貼最後幾段採訪他的
n mid-September, I spoke with Cliff Li, the head of the National Committee of
Asian American Republicans, based in Washington, D.C. Li came to the United
States in 1990, a year after witnessing the events of Tiananmen Square. He
worked as a computer engineer, and was instantly drawn to conservative
ideals: “personal merit, family values, working hard, deregulation.”
Li, who splits his time between Florida and Virginia, had an upbeat, almost
mellifluous quality to his voice as he talked about his deep affection for
America—how it represented the perfect intersection of conservative and
Asian values. He had worked with the Republican Party for years,
participating in various leadership trainings and organizing Asian Americans
throughout the country. He was the chair of the Asian American outreach team
for Florida’s governor, Ron DeSantis, and served on a Trump-campaign
advisory committee with Elaine Chao, the Transportation Secretary. The
establishment of the National Committee, in 2016, formalized the work he’d
been doing at the grassroots level, connecting scattered pockets of newer
immigrants, energized by issues like affirmative action, to the Republican
Party. He felt that the Asian American conservative movement was on the verge
of something major. It was organizing itself throughout the country on social
media. Li believed that this was much more effective than the traditional
approach of simply robocalling Asian Americans three months before an
election.
Last year, Li was embarrassed when it was reported that one of his
volunteers, Cindy Yang, was leveraging her political connections to sell
access to Trump to Chinese businessmen and politicians. (Yang has denied any
wrongdoing.)
But the past few months have been defined by a more profound crisis. Trump’s
rhetoric was fracturing relationships between the U.S. and China, and Asian
Americans were beginning to feel a “pinch,” as Li described it. He kept
returning to Trump’s treatment of covid-19, and his continued reference to “
the China virus.” “It’s not funny,” he said, his voice cracking. “This
has consequences.” His seven-year-old daughter had been bullied at school by
classmates who spread rumors that she had the virus. It had led him to
scrutinize what he called “the hidden identity politics” of the right.
Members of his party would always prefer a white man from Ohio. He had begun
to feel that they “were not very well informed” about the commitment
someone like him had made to the conservative movement. “We are not Chinese,
” he protested. “We are Chinese Americans.”
Among the Republicans’ Young Guns, the designation that the National
Republican Congressional Committee gives its most promising candidates, two
are Korean Americans from Orange County: Young Kim, who is hoping to win a
rematch against Gil Cisneros, and Michelle Steel. Li was hopeful that they
would win in November, but the rest of America, he explained, was not like
California. The Party was overlooking Asian votes in places such as Florida
and Pennsylvania.
A few days after Li and I spoke, the Trump Administration moved to ban
WeChat, where most of his strongest Asian American supporters organized their
communities. I asked Li whether the National Committee of Asian American
Republicans had a position on the Presidential race. “Frankly, we are
sitting out on this one,” he said. The group would not endorse Trump or put
any work into national campaigning and outreach. “This year is very
difficult for our organization, or myself, to come and say, with confidence,
‘You’re Asian American—vote on the Republican side.’ ”
Last week, Li told me that the committee was debating whether to endorse
Biden. He would be voting for the Democrat, even though he disagreed with a
lot of his positions. Li still considered himself a staunch conservative, but
he told me that he wanted to sound an alarm to Republicans. “On the ground,
there is so much doubt,” he said. “On November 3rd, you will see what I’m
talking about.”
※ 引述《sobiNOva (星星徹夜未眠)》之銘言:
: ※ 引述《Abre (Баба-яга)》之銘言:
: : 更新
: : 下面有人回文表示這應該是臨時做好的假網頁
: 公道伯又來了
: 不是唷,川粉無端造謠
: 使用Wayback Machine這個網站查詢http://www.asian.gop/ 網域
: 即可知道 此網頁在2016年即是使用狀態,裡面都是挺共和黨的
: 科普一下Wayback這個網站在ALEXA裡面是前兩百的 你要說他造假我也無言
:
: 根據關鍵字搜出報導
: https://chineseamerican.org/p/33027
: 然後人肉出本人臉書
: https://www.facebook.com/hellocliff
: 隨便翻兩篇就看到他今年
: 也是第三次進白宮參加農曆新年活動
: 然後還偷酸了民主黨一下
: 他的主戰場應該是在佛州
: 大概是這樣啦..
: 會有影響嗎?