Newt Gingrich made a surprise appearance at the Asian American Town Hall

September 29, 2025 admin 0 Comments

Newt Gingrich made a surprise appearance at the Asian American Town Hall at the California Republican Convention. He outlined a plan he thought would appeal to Asian American voters and took a couple of swipes at Obama.

The California Republican Convention Asian Town Hall was a beginning of sorts for organized conservative Republican Asian American representation in California.

Before Michelle Steel, vice chair of the California Board of Equalization and chair of Newt Gingrich’s campaign in the state, organized the town hall, as many as half of the elected officials who attended the event had never been contacted by the Republican Party for anything, a representative of her office said.

Her husband, Shawn Steel, the Republican National Committeeman from California, described the surprising findings Republicans made when contacting Asian American elected officials.

“We started off in Los Angeles, we hit over 40 locally elected Republican Asian officials,” said her husband. “Nobody knew we had 40 locally elected Asian officials who were actually registered Republicans in the Los Angeles Orange County area. “

He said many elected Asian Republican officials might not have even known their colleagues were Republican, too.