Vietnamese-Americans look forward to election day spectacle

By Anh Ngoc |

Jimmy Luong plans to vote for President Donald Trump and party with friends while waiting for the election results on Tuesday night.

"I will vote on November 3 at a polling booth near my house. Perhaps my vote will help Trump win, or at least make Biden lost one vote," the Vietnamese-American, a resident of Boston, Massachusetts.

Massachusetts is a blue, or Democratic, state, but Luong, who has been in the country for 15 years, supports Trump.

When he initially took office in 2017 he did not like him, but after four years he likes Trump’s employment and tax policies, he said.

"On the evening of November 3, I will hold a party and watch the election result on TV with 10 other friends, nine of them Trump supporters."

He has bought nine Trump shirts, while the other will wear a Biden shirt.

"Those voting for the losing candidate will have to drink beer as punishment."

According to a survey by the Asian Americans Advancing Justice – AAJC, Asian and Pacific, Islander American Vote (APIAVote) and AAPI Data in September, Vietnamese Americans are the only Asian American group that prefers Donald Trump to Joe Biden in this presidential election.

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