It was a day of victories and defeats for Indian American candidates within the current Tremendous Tuesday primaries. The largest day of this yr’s main marketing campaign within the US approached as 15 states — plus American Samoa — voted in contests.
Veteran Indian-American Congressmen Ami Bera and Ro Khanna efficiently defended their positions in opposition to challengers.
Ami Bera, a Democrat, secured his seventh time period by advancing to the final election with 53.6% of the vote in California’s sixth Congressional District.
In the meantime, Ro Khanna, looking for his fifth time period, received decisively over Republican Anita Chen within the seventeenth Congressional District, in accordance with American Bazaar.
In distinction, Indian-American engineer Rishi Kumar, a Democrat, misplaced his bid to run for Congress.
With 50% of the vote counted, former San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo was forward with 22% of the vote, whereas Santa Clara County Supervisor Joe Simitian had almost 18%. Each Liccardo and Simitian are Democrats. Kumar ended up in seventh place out of 11 candidates with 6.3% of the vote.
This got here amid Indian-American Republican challenger to former president Donald Trump, Nikki Haley, dropping out of the presidential race.
SUCCESS FOR KRUTTIVENTI, DISAPPOINTMENT FOR KUMAR
Indian-American Republican Vin Kruttiventi superior to the final election in Northern California’s 14th Congressional District, dwelling to one of many largest populations of Indian-People within the nation, securing second place with 17.8% of the vote to incumbent Eric Swalwell with 64.5%, looking for his sixth time period within the Home of Representatives.
In accordance with studies from the Federal Election Fee, Kruttiventi, the founder and CEO of A5 Providers, has invested $500,000 of his private funds into his marketing campaign.
Nonetheless, medical psychologist Harmesh Kumar’s longshot bid for the vacant US Senate seat left by the late Senator Dianne Feinstein led to disappointment.
Moreover, Ash Kalra, a Democrat, emerged as the highest candidate within the twenty fifth Meeting District and can face fellow Democrat Lan Ngo within the common election.
Nonetheless, challenger Tara Sreekrishnan, a 30-year-old Indian-origin chief who has garnered important endorsements for her bid, confronted defeat in her race for California’s twenty sixth district state Meeting seat.
In different races, Democrat Darshana Patel will compete in opposition to Republican Kristie Bruce-Lane for California’s 76th district state Meeting seat, which covers a portion of San Diego.
Probably the most distinguished of all of the Indian-American candidates was Nikki Haley, the previous governor of South Carolina. She conceded to Donald Trump after shedding each state however one — Vermont — in Tremendous Tuesday’s main contests.
In January, Indian-American billionaire entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy suspended his bid after Trump received the Iowa caucus. He later pledged help for Trump’s presidential bid.
