google了这人 Cliff Li，他是资深共和党员，也是这网站的头，2016年是川普竞选团
队的顾问之一，也帮前佛州共和党州长竞选过。
共和党其实还不少人不支持川普，这不是新闻。
the New Yorker刚好写一篇报导，最后一段花了大篇幅采访他，读了就了解他的心路历程
这篇题目是 Are Asian Americans the last undecided voters?
"亚裔美国人是最后还未决定要投谁的选民吗?"
https://tinyurl.com/y5t9pnkp 原文很长，只贴最后几段采访他的
n mid-September, I spoke with Cliff Li, the head of the National Committee of
Asian American Republicans, based in Washington, D.C. Li came to the United
States in 1990, a year after witnessing the events of Tiananmen Square. He
worked as a computer engineer, and was instantly drawn to conservative
ideals: “personal merit, family values, working hard, deregulation.”
Li, who splits his time between Florida and Virginia, had an upbeat, almost
mellifluous quality to his voice as he talked about his deep affection for
America—how it represented the perfect intersection of conservative and
Asian values. He had worked with the Republican Party for years,
participating in various leadership trainings and organizing Asian Americans
throughout the country. He was the chair of the Asian American outreach team
for Florida’s governor, Ron DeSantis, and served on a Trump-campaign
advisory committee with Elaine Chao, the Transportation Secretary. The
establishment of the National Committee, in 2016, formalized the work he’d
been doing at the grassroots level, connecting scattered pockets of newer
immigrants, energized by issues like affirmative action, to the Republican
Party. He felt that the Asian American conservative movement was on the verge
of something major. It was organizing itself throughout the country on social
media. Li believed that this was much more effective than the traditional
approach of simply robocalling Asian Americans three months before an
election.
Last year, Li was embarrassed when it was reported that one of his
volunteers, Cindy Yang, was leveraging her political connections to sell
access to Trump to Chinese businessmen and politicians. (Yang has denied any
wrongdoing.)
But the past few months have been defined by a more profound crisis. Trump’s
rhetoric was fracturing relationships between the U.S. and China, and Asian
Americans were beginning to feel a “pinch,” as Li described it. He kept
returning to Trump’s treatment of covid-19, and his continued reference to “
the China virus.” “It’s not funny,” he said, his voice cracking. “This
has consequences.” His seven-year-old daughter had been bullied at school by
classmates who spread rumors that she had the virus. It had led him to
scrutinize what he called “the hidden identity politics” of the right.
Members of his party would always prefer a white man from Ohio. He had begun
to feel that they “were not very well informed” about the commitment
someone like him had made to the conservative movement. “We are not Chinese,
” he protested. “We are Chinese Americans.”
Among the Republicans’ Young Guns, the designation that the National
Republican Congressional Committee gives its most promising candidates, two
are Korean Americans from Orange County: Young Kim, who is hoping to win a
rematch against Gil Cisneros, and Michelle Steel. Li was hopeful that they
would win in November, but the rest of America, he explained, was not like
California. The Party was overlooking Asian votes in places such as Florida
and Pennsylvania.
A few days after Li and I spoke, the Trump Administration moved to ban
WeChat, where most of his strongest Asian American supporters organized their
communities. I asked Li whether the National Committee of Asian American
Republicans had a position on the Presidential race. “Frankly, we are
sitting out on this one,” he said. The group would not endorse Trump or put
any work into national campaigning and outreach. “This year is very
difficult for our organization, or myself, to come and say, with confidence,
‘You’re Asian American—vote on the Republican side.’ ”
Last week, Li told me that the committee was debating whether to endorse
Biden. He would be voting for the Democrat, even though he disagreed with a
lot of his positions. Li still considered himself a staunch conservative, but
he told me that he wanted to sound an alarm to Republicans. “On the ground,
there is so much doubt,” he said. “On November 3rd, you will see what I’m
talking about.”
※ 引述《sobiNOva (星星彻夜未眠)》之铭言：
: ※ 引述《Abre (Баба-яга)》之铭言：
: : 更新
: : 下面有人回文表示这应该是临时做好的假网页
: 公道伯又来了
: 不是唷，川粉无端造谣
: 使用Wayback Machine这个网站查询http://www.asian.gop/ 网域
: 即可知道 此网页在2016年即是使用状态，里面都是挺共和党的
: 科普一下Wayback这个网站在ALEXA里面是前两百的 你要说他造假我也无言
: https://imgur.com/AmtAWJN
: 根据关键字搜出报导
: https://chineseamerican.org/p/33027
: 然后人肉出本人脸书
: https://www.facebook.com/hellocliff
: 随便翻两篇就看到他今年
: 也是第三次进白宫参加农历新年活动
: 然后还偷酸了民主党一下
: 他的主战场应该是在佛州
: 大概是这样啦..
: 会有影响吗?