https://www.aaldef.org/press-release/aaldef-exit-poll-asian-americans-favor-biden-over-trump-68-to-29-played-role-in-close-races-in-georgia-and-other-battleground-states/
[November 13, 2020] The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) today released new data from its exit poll of 5,424 Asian American voters in 13 states and Washington, DC, noting the importance of the Asian American vote in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan, and Nevada.
Jerry Vattamala, AALDEF Democracy Program Director, said “Despite the challenges of the pandemic, we dispatched more than 400 volunteers to polling places, interacting with voters in English and nine Asian languages through paper surveys or by providing voters with QR codes to complete the surveys online.”
Among all Asian American voters polled:
Asian Americans favored Joe Biden over Donald Trump by a margin of 68% to 29%.
* There was no gender gap between Asian American men and women, with 67% of women and 66% of men voting for Biden and both groups supporting Trump at 31%.
* The only ethnic group to favor Trump were Vietnamese American voters, by a margin of 57% to 41%.
The breakdown of voters by ethnicity was as follows:
[most D] Bangladeshi > Pakistani > Indo-Caribbean > Arab > Multi-Asian >> Indian >> Other Asian > Chinese > Filipino > Korean > Cambodian >> Vietnamese [most R]
Sigh, I figured there'd be at least one exit poll showing Trump won the Vietnamese vote. I wonder where the discrepancy between this and the AAPI Fund Election Eve poll showing Biden won Vietnamese Americans by over 20 points is coming from.
It looks like the Indian, Korean, Vietnamese, and maybe Filipino + Chinese votes all swung significantly toward Trump. The Chinese results from this poll are roughly the same as what 2016 NAAS exit polls showed.
First-Time Voters, Political Party, Nativity, English Language Proficiency, and Gender
• 27% were first-time voters; 73% were not first-time voters.
• 54% were registered Democrats; 16% were registered Republicans; 27% were not enrolled in a party; and 3% were enrolled in another party.
• 27% were native-born U.S. citizens; 73% were foreign-born naturalized citizens.
• 7% were limited English proficient (LEP); and 63% spoke English well.
• 52.9% were Female; 46.7% were Male; 0.4% Non-Binary.
Those limited English proficiency numbers (52-46) are terrible for Biden lmao. Surprisingly, the first-time vote was slightly more favorable for Trump (30%) than the non-first-time vote (29%).
Damn, those are North Korea margins among Bangladeshis and Pakistanis. Very surprised Trump didn't even get 10%.
How do the 2016 numbers compare for these groups?
EDIT: Found them
Image LinkInteresting, so it looks like most third-party votes went to Trump but Biden didn't lose much ground from Clinton.
On the other hand, most Asian groups swung to Trump and Biden got a lower voteshare than Clinton.
This is especially pronounced among Cambodians, who went from 78% for Clinton to 56% for Biden. That's even more than the Venezuelan swing. What happened there?
