When she saw her name at the top of the election results, Jennifer Yan couldn’t believe her eyes.
A 52-year-old Chinese immigrant and tech investor, Yan won the most votes in the race for the San Francisco Republican County Central Committee (RCCC), the leadership board of the local Republican Party. She wasn’t sure if she was just lucky, or if some bigger changes were coming to the party.
"There are many Asian Americans who are the 'silent majority,'" Yan said in Chinese. "But now, they are participating in politics."
In the March election, Yan and Bruce Lou, another Chinese American and political newcomer, surprisingly received the most votes in the western and eastern districts of the RCCC races, while the pool of candidates and the general Republican voter base remain largely white.
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