From Mamdani To Her, And The Voters Who Backed Them, There Was A Lot Of Asian Goodness This Past Election Day

At the end of the day we just cleaned up. 

There was Zohran Mamdani as New York's first Asian American, South Asian, and Muslim mayor. The youngest mayor at age 34 to hold the title in a hundred years. This is exactly the change Democrats, and the younger voting block needed to see win.

Mamdani Shows Up And Vibes

In Saint Paul, MN, Kaohly Vang Her defeated two-term incumbent mayor Melvin Carter, the city's first African American mayor, who Her was also policy director for in his first term. She will be the first woman, Asian American, and Hmong American, to hold the office and lead the city.

3HMONGTV NEWS | Recorded on 11-05-2025 Kaohly Vang Her wins St. Paul Mayoral race.

Aftab Karma Singh Pureval, the city's first Asian American mayor was reelected in Cincinnati, winning over Cory Bowman, a Republican who also happens to be JD Vance’s half-brother. A win-win if there was one.

Aftab Pureval celebrates reelection in Cincinnati mayoral race

Ghazala F. Hashmi, born in Hyderabad, India and raised in Georgia, was elected Lieutenant Governor of Virginia. She became the first Muslim American woman elected to statewide office in the U.S.

Trump's unpopular, harmful policies fueled Democratic wins, says Virginia's Ghazala Hashmi

And then there were the voters (us).

From the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) and the Asian American Federation (AAF) exit poll:

Asian American Voters Favored Mamdani for Mayor, including 20% of 2024 Trump Voters

About half (49.1%) of Asian American voters who participated in the exit poll voted for Mamdani and roughly one-third (33.8%) voted for Cuomo. Notably, an overwhelming 87.2% of South Asian voters cast their ballots for Mamdani, while 9.6% voted for Cuomo.

According to the NBC exit poll this was as high as 62% of Asian Americans.A story down at Documented on why young Asian Americans voted for Mamdani:

But Mamdani’s focus on affordability and housing wasn’t the only thing that resonated with young Asian-American voters. They also wanted to feel hope again about issues that affect people on a larger scale.

“A lot of young people that I’ve talked to, either in schools, at the doors, or in the neighborhood, really want things to change,” Situ said. “But they’ve also lived through two Trump presidencies, and are watching a genocide happen on their phones, so they’re battling a lot of pessimism, whether through conversations with their friends or what they see on the news.”

Nice work if you can get it.

Clinton, Obama, the Asian American vote, and lots of whining

So I've been listening to the rhetoric (and that's what it is) since Super Tuesday and listening to how everyone has been rationalizing how the Asian American vote helped Clinton versus Obama - and really - it's just a lot of excuses from the Asian American segment that are Obama supporters.

But that's to be expected a little isn't it?

I mean, everyone wants to support their candidate - and that's great, because you should - but while discussing reasons why Asian Americans voted for Clinton versus Obama - a lot of Obama supporters also ended up trashing the segment of Asian Americans who decided to vote for Hillary instead of Obama.

Here are some of the dumbass statements and inferences from the Asian American Obama support clubs and article writers after Super Tuesday:

Asian Americans who voted for Hillary are like sheep because they follow their community leaders blindly, who ended up giving their support to Clinton

Yeah that's spot on. I guess we really are all a collective who can't think on our own. Oh wait, maybe that's just the people that bought into one article by Jeff Chang as the reasons for people not voting for Obama - because you know - he's like God.

Asian Americans didn't vote for Obama because he was black

As much as #1 relegates Asian Americans who voted for Clinton to being sheep - this inference - and it has been inferred - is that Asian Americans who voted for Hillary only did so because they didn't want to vote for a black candidate.

Yeah - this is just sewage being spewed from people who can't wrap their plebian-like minds around the fact that maybe, just maybe, these Asian Americans liked Clinton's overall experience and platform to that of Obama's.

But then again what do I know?

I'm probably just a racist Asian American guy who doesn't like black people (oh wait - don't I do this blog where I post on race and racism for all people of color...hmm - I must be more messed up than I thought).

Asian American's who voted for Clinton are just immigrants with accents who don't really know any better

I love this one - because a lot of the rhetoric that's come out from Obama supporters on why certain Asian American groups voted the way they did, or on Asian American voting coverage, do in fact infer this.

So let me see - I'm an immigrant who's lived here the majority of my life, and I know other immigrants who happen to have accents - I guess that means regardless of who we might vote for, that we don't really know any better because well - we're just dumbass immigrants?

And an accent makes someone even less intelligent?

Because someone wasn't born in this country that somehow makes their choices - no matter who they voted for - less than those Asian Americans who were born in this country?

What? Immigrants can't read?

I mean seriously - are these Obama supporters in the Asian American community such incredible poor ass losers (on ST) that they couldn't help but denigrate the Asian American community that did in fact vote for Clinton in the states that she won - all because their candidate didn't?

Vote for whoever it is that you believe in - that's your right - but don't trample over other Asian Americans like you're a racist white guy, just because they didn't vote the same way you did.

Rudy Giuliani keeps on hiring racists

After deciding to hire racist Arthur Ravenel, Jr. for his South Carolina Campaign Chair already noted in a previous blog post here, Rudy Giuliani has apparently decided to keep on hiring racists like Richard Stanek who has a history of racially charged remarks (to put it bluntly).

In 2004 he had to resign from his post as MN’s public safety commissioner because as noted in a deposition, he apparently liked to sling around racial slurs - you know - words like n*****.

While you hate to see people like this get attached to a presidential campaign in any form - if anything - at least it makes everyone else look that much better…

Just another reason to vote for anyone not named Rudy.