Vice President Kamala Harris has earned Virginia’s 13 Electoral College votes, though by a far slimmer margin than most polls had predicted, The Associated Press reports. Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine also won reelection, beating out longshot challenger Hung Cao, a former U.S. Navy captain.
Cao, a Trump acolyte, was born in Vietnam and made anti-communism the centerpiece of his campaign. In an interview with Foreign Policy, Cao said that he was “basically the standard bearer” for Virginia’s Vietnamese American population, the country’s fifth-largest. But as I reported from the Washington, D.C., suburbs last week, the reality is more complex. The community skews Republican, but there is strong support for Democrats as well.
Kaine, who has served in the Senate since 2013, is a member of the Armed Services and Foreign Relations Committees. He gained national prominence as Hillary Clinton’s running mate in the 2016 election—and again over the weekend, when he appeared on Saturday Night Live (along with Harris and pop star Chappell Roan).
Read it here: In Virginia, a Vietnamese American Community Divided
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