“Over the past several months, the leading Republican presidential candidate has launched a series of racist attacks on the wife of the Republican Party’s Senate leader, a woman who once served in his Cabinet,” Politico reports.
“But while former President Donald Trump’s taunts at Elaine Chao — demeaning her as ‘Coco Chow’ or a variation of Mitch McConnell’s ‘China-loving wife’ — have been mostly met with silence from fellow GOP officials, the main target of them is now speaking out.”
Said Chao: “When I was young, some people deliberately misspelled or mispronounced my name. Asian Americans have worked hard to change that experience for the next generation. He doesn’t seem to understand that, which says a whole lot more about him than it will ever say about Asian Americans.”
