Sri Preston Kulkarni, a Democrat, has built a multilingual following in Texas' most diverse county. He may face off against Pierce Bush, part of a Republican dynasty, in November.
affiliate in the country, has recently expressed support for Trump immigration policies in campaign ads, but is probably headed to a runoff — if he makes it that far. The Cook Political report considers the race a Republican toss-up., a political scientist at Rice University. “The Republican Party realizes it’s in some trouble.
The district has nearly a million residents. Two-thirds live in Fort Bend County, which is about 65% minority, divided about equally among Asian Americans, African Americans and Latinos. Last year,was elected county executive, making him one of the top Indian American elected officials in the United States. But turnout among many immigrants communities has historically been low.
Kulkarni — who speaks Hebrew, Hindi, Mandarin, Spanish and Russian — estimates residents speak more than a hundred languages. He’s distributed materials in 19 languages — several of them South Asian — and visited temples, mosques and other community centers. Kulkarni grew up in Houston and graduated from the University of Texas at Austin, spent 14 years in the Foreign Service and worked for Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand before earning a master’s degree at the Harvard Kennedy School. His late father was an Indian immigrant, his mother a descendant of one of the Anglo founders of Texas.
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