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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – The Central Valley is location to astir 150,000 Armenians. This year's statesmanlike predetermination betwixt Donald Trump and Kamala Harris has Armenians successful California, and each implicit the country, connected edge. Although not each Armenian votes the same, galore are considering the destiny of their homeland erstwhile they crook successful their ballot.
“What you ballot for, it matters not lone successful this state but astir the satellite arsenic well,” Fresno nonmigratory Sevag Tateosian said.
Fresno Armenians, similar Sevag Tateosian, are yet to marque a last determination successful the statesmanlike race.
“As an Armenian-American, we can’t hide the past that has happened with the Armenians and the genocide. And past much precocious successful 2020, successful Artsakh,” Tateosian said.
Approximately 1.5 cardinal Armenians telephone the United States home, and astir 150,000 radical with Armenian roots unrecorded successful the Central Valley.
“There are a batch of people, judge it oregon not, that are undecided. And we're not lone talking astir the statesmanlike race, you know, down the ticket. The legislature races are important. The section region races are important, the section schoolhouse committee races are important,” Tateosian said.
Over time, Armenian issues person garnered enactment from Central Valley lawmakers connected some sides of the aisle.
“Congressman Valadao has been to Nagorno-Karabakh, He's been to Artsakh and has been a staunch advocator of U.S. assistance to Artsakh. Across the aisle, you person Jim Costa, who has been, you know, specified a beloved person who has a fig of Armenians connected his unit arsenic well, conscionable a large champion for Armenian issues,” Armenian National Committee of America’s Executive Director Aram Hamparian said.
The ANCA is not endorsing a statesmanlike candidate.
“During the Trump-Pence medication and during the Biden-Harris administration, our authorities equipped the authorities of Azerbaijan, which committed a genocide against the Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh, what we telephone Artsakh, they abandoned Armenians during a precise hopeless time,” Hamparian said.
Hamparian says Armenian-Americans aren’t lone voting for America's future.
“Whoever is elected volition profoundly interaction the absorption of U.S. overseas argumentation and frankly, the destiny of warfare and bid for the planet,” Hamparian said.
Hamparian said some Trump and Harris’ campaigns person reached retired to the ANCA and person "helped halfway Armenian issues successful the American electoral arena."
