Blong Xiong has announced he'll enter the CA-21 race as a Democrat. He was #1 on the Democratic wish list, because Dean Florez was never going to run. He's Hmong and there's a sizable Hmong population in Fresno. Here's his life story. How's your Hmong?
Of course, most of that sizable Hmong population in Fresno is in his district, which only has roughly 70,000 people. The congressional district has 10 times that many people and only 4% of them are Asian. (Edit: It's been pointed out to me that the Hmong community is actually in the neighboring CA-22)
I wouldn't consider him top tier, but I wouldn't underestimate him. This is the Central Valley and the Democrats don't have a long bench there. So he's a good get and I'm betting that his campaign account will have a lot of checks with Hmong names on them by the end of the day.
He might want to update his website.
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