Center for Social Innovation
As America decides Tuesday whether to give brash billionaire Donald Trump four more years or replace him with Democrat challenger “Sleepy Joe” Biden, as the incumbent calls him, Indian Americans seem to hold the key to the White House.
They make up just about 0.82% of 240 million voters, but thanks to their demographic profile, 1.8 million Indian Americans can make the difference in several battleground states from Florida to Texas.
For instance, in swing states like New Hampshire, Pennsylvania and Michigan, their numbers are actually larger than Trump’s margin of victory over Hillary Clinton in the, 2016 presidential election.
“So while in aggregate they are not huge, they can be pivotal in certain swing states,” Milan Vaishnav, who directs the South Asia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, pointed out in a recent interview with NPR.