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In a formidable present, all of the 4 Indian-American Democratic lawmakers – Dr Ami Bera, Pramila Jayapal, Ro Khanna and Raja Krishnamoorthi – have been re-elected to the US House of Representatives.
The Indian-American group has emerged as a pressure to reckon with for the primary time within the historical past of the US presidential election. Both the Democrat and the Republican campaigns had initiated a number of measures to woo the roughly 1.eight million members of the group who’ve emerged as a crucial voting bloc within the battleground states of Florida, Georgia, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Texas.
The so-called ‘Samosa caucus’, a termed coined by Raja Krishnamoorthi for casual grouping of Indian-American lawmakers, may increase with at the least yet another as doctor Dr Hiral Tipirneni was main towards Republican incumbent David Schweikert from the sixth Congressional district of Arizona when final stories got here in.
If elected, Hiral Tipirneni, 52, could be the second ever Indian-American girl to be elected to the House of Representatives. Jayapal, 55, was the primary Indian-American girl to be elected to the House of Representatives in 2016.
The ‘Samosa caucus’ at present includes 5 Indian-American lawmakers, together with the 4 members of the House of Representatives and Senator and Democratic vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris, 56.
Raja Krishnamoorthi, 47, simply defeated Preston Nelson, 30, of the Libertarian Party. When final stories got here in, he had accounted for practically 71 per cent of the whole votes counted.
Ro Khanna, 44, simply defeated fellow Indian-American Ritesh Tandon, 48, of the Republican Party with a margin of greater than 50 share factors. This was his third-consecutive win from the 17th Congressional district of California.
Dr Ami Bera, 55, the senior most member of the ‘Samosa Caucus’, received the seventh Congressional District of California for the fifth consecutive time period. When the final report got here in, he had established an inaccessible lead by greater than 25 share factors towards his Republican rival 65-year-old Buzz Patterson.
Meanwhile, Democratic candidate Sri Preston Kulkarni, 42, misplaced to his Republican rival Troy Nehls, 52, a well-liked sheriff and navy veteran endorsed by President Donald Trump, within the 22nd Congressional district of Texas.
Republican Manga Anantatmula misplaced to Democratic incumbent Gerry Connolly within the 11th Congressional District of Virginia. Republican Nisha Sharma from the Republican Party additionally misplaced her maiden Congressional try. She was defeated by incumbent Mark DeSaulnier from the Democratic Party by greater than 50 share factors.
The House of Representatives is the decrease home of the US Congress, with the Senate being the higher home.
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