Asian Americans back Clinton, Trump gets Speaker’s nod

Washington

California has a large Asian-American population. It has the largest Indian-American population outside the tristate area of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.

“Asian Americans’ growing influence and political power is poised to play a major role in this crucial election. Secretary Clinton has meaningfully engaged with our community and she has strongly advocated for issues of importance to AAPI families, ranging from environmental justice to gun control,” Dilawar Syed, co-founder and vice chairman of Asian American and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) Victory Fund, said.

“We repudiate the racial, ethnic and religious prejudices espoused by the presumptive Republican nominee. By mobilising the AAPI electorate across the state on June 7th, we will ensure Secretary Clinton’s victory in California,” he said.

Trump gets Ryan backing

Meanwhile, in a major boost to Republican party unity ahead of the November polls, House Speaker Paul Ryan has endorsed presumptive nominee Donald Trump, saying they have more common ground than disagreement. “I feel confident he would help us turn the ideas in this agenda into laws to help improve peoples’ lives. That’s why I’ll be voting for him this fall,” Ryan said in an op-ed published in Gazette Xtra.

Ryan, citing “major policy differences”, had refused to endorse Trump after he emerged as the presumptive presidential nominee following his win in the Indiana primary elections in May. Thereafter, the two had a series of meetings and phone calls.The Speaker has now insisted that despite differences between the two men, they have more common ground than divergence. “It’s no secret that he and I have our differences.