Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris is leading her Republican rival Donald Trump by 38 points among Asian American voters, according to results of a survey.
The survey was conducted by NORC at the University of Chicago, and its results were released on Tuesday. This is the first survey since President Joe Biden dropped out of the race in July and Vice President Harris became the Democratic Party’s presidential candidate.
Harris, 59, leads Trump, 78, by 38 percentage points among Asian American voters, according to the survey, expanding Biden’s 15-point lead since the spring to 23 percentage points.
Among Asian American voters, 66 percent plan to vote for Harris, while 28 percent say they support former President Trump. Those who say they will support another candidate or are undecided make up 6 percent.
In the 2024 Asian American Voter Survey (AAVS), conducted in April-May, 46 percent of Asian American voters supported Biden and 31 percent supported Trump, while 23 percent said they planned to vote for someone else or were undecided.
In the 2020 AAVS, conducted in July-September of that year, 54 percent said they planned to vote for Biden, 30 percent for Trump, and 16 percent planned to vote for someone else or were undecided.
Additionally, Harris’s popularity among Asian American voters has increased by 18 points.
According to the survey, 62 percent of Asian American voters say they have a favorable opinion of Harris, while 35 percent have an unfavorable opinion of her. This is higher than the 2024 AAVS, in which 44 percent had a favorable opinion of her, while 42 percent had an unfavorable opinion of her.
On the other hand, 28 percent of Asian American voters have a positive opinion of Trump, while 70 percent have a negative opinion of him. Among the 2024 AAVs, 34 percent have a positive opinion of him and 62 percent have a negative opinion of him.
Polls showed that Harris’s running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, was far more popular as a vice presidential nominee than Republican vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance.
Fifty-six percent of Asian American voters have a positive opinion of Walz, while 18 percent have a negative opinion, and 26 percent don’t know enough to form an opinion.
It said 21 percent of Asian American voters think favorably of Vance, while 58 percent disagree and 22 percent don’t know enough to form an opinion.
Thirty-eight percent of Asian American voters also said Harris’s identity as a woman is “extremely” or “very” important to them, while 27 percent said the same about her identity as Asian Indian or South Asian.
Surveys also found that Asian American voters are more likely to say they have been reached out to by the Democratic Party than the Republican Party.
Presidential elections in America will be held on November 5.
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