Asian American voters<\/u>, who could decide close elections in states like Pennsylvania, are being deluged with incendiary, misleading ads sent to their mailboxes, phones, and screens by former Trump aides, including Stephen Miller, in the closing days of the campaign.<\/p>\n
Leaders of the Asian American and Pacific Islander community in Pennsylvania have denounced the flood of digital ads and direct mail from Republican groups \u2014 which seek to blame Democrats for the spike in anti-Asian hate crimes since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic and cast efforts to combat anti-Black racism as a form of discrimination against white and Asian communities.<\/p>\n
“Asian Americans, like many other communities of color and immigrant and refugee communities have had to fight through many barriers to vote \u2014 especially misinformation,” Wei Chen<\/a>, an organizer\u00a0in the Chinese American community in Philadelphia said in an interview on Friday. “The ads are new; the tricks are not.”<\/p>\n Chen, who co-founded the state’s Asian Pacific Islander Political Alliance<\/a>, or API PA, said that mailers from Miller’s group America First Legal, falsely claiming that the Biden administration discriminates against Asian Americans, have started appearing in the Philadelphia suburbs.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n