By Yashwant Raj Washington 13th of September : The former US President Donald Trump is back with another Hindi slogan: “Bharat and US Sabse Achhe Dost (India and the US are the best of friends)”.
Trump has recorded this catchy new phrase in his Mar-a-Lago residence last week for Shalabh Kumar who is a Chicago-based businessman, Republican donor and strategist who was also the source of Trump’s initial Hindi campaign slogan in the year 2016 “Ab ki bar Trump Sarkar” that was inspired by the Prime Narendra Modi’s campaign slogan “Ab Ki Bar, Modi sarkar”.
Kumar said Trump who doesn’t know any Hindi at any point, had a better to record the slogan than people in Kumar’s team, who struggled to pronounce the word “Bharat” correctly.The majority of people couldn’t understand the phrase, Kumar recalled with a smile in spite of “hundreds of takes”.
The former President was able to get the award in “just three minutes”, Kumar said.
Trump had a much harder time with the initial slogan, despite.
According to Kumar’s account, Trump had done 12 attempts to get the slogan right, and then recorded it in his campaign headquarters, Trump Tower which was also the headquarters of the Trump Organization and, later the residence of his.The former President lives in Florida in his Mar-a-Lago club resort.
“We will employ the slogan in the midterm elections that are scheduled to take place in November,” Kumar said, discussing the development of the slogan only with this reporter.
The goal of the slogan is to mobilize the Indian/Hindu Americans in the support of Republicans specifically the most prominent candidates who were endorsed by the former President of the United States – J.D.Vance in Ohio, Herschel Walker in Georgia, Mehmet Oz in Pennsylvania, Ron Johnson in Wisconsin and the other candidates from the party in Arizona the once Republican strength that was the home of president Joe Biden, a Democrat won in 2020, preventing Trump’s path for re-election.
Indian Americans have emerged as an essential vote bank in states with swings where the outcome of elections can be decided on a slender margin as small as a few thousand.
A report for 2020 from the US think tank Carnegie Endowment for International Peace found that “in certain states that are swing states there is evidence that the Indian American population is larger than the margin of victory that stood between (Democratic Presidential nominee) Hillary Clinton and Trump in the highly-contested 2016 Presidential race”.
The Indian American community has grown to more than 4 million, believed to be about 1 percent of the population totalhowever, the number of registered voters is lower than the number of registered voters, which was 160 million in 2020.They are scattered across the country.
The most concentrated are in California, Texas, New Jersey, New York and Illinois.
However, they are more important in swing states like Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Virginia and, now, Georgia and Arizona, where their numbers, while smaller, are greater than the margins of victory or defeatfor instance, Biden was able to win Wisconsin by 22,000 votes (Trump had won the state by 22,000 in 2016), Pennsylvania by 80,000 votes (Trump took the state by 50,000 votes in 2016) and Georgia by 12,000 votes (Trump had won it with 2,11,141 votes in 2016).
Both Democratic as well as Republican parties are now trying to win Indian Americans aggressively.Kumar said that Trump’s slogan will appear in an advertisement that will air on television channels that are viewed primarily by Indian Americans, starting October when candidates will be in the final month of campaigning for the US House of Representatives, Senate (a third of 100 seats) and state-wide officials, such as governors and state legislatures.
Kumar worked with Trump since 2016,, but the relationship cooled at the final days of the term of the former President.Kumar has stayed out of Trump’s 2020 presidential campaign, however, he is now in the good favors of Trump’s former president.
The two recently appeared in the same NDTV interview.
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