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It’s election season and, like clockwork, some conservatives are resorting to anti-Asian racism and anti-Chinese xenophobia as the Republican Party faces a potential shellacking in this year’s midterms. The below campaign ad featuring Sen. Marsha Blackburn, a Tennessee Republican and gubernatorial candidate, in which she crushes fortune cookies while vowing to “hunt down” communists and “crack down on China,” is a prime example. Some observers, while rebuking the racist video, noted that modern fortune cookies weren’t invented in China, but rather in the United States by Japanese immigrants. The US really is an idiocracy. This Republican Congress member boasts of how much she hates China by crushing fortune cookies with her hands. By the way, fortune cookies were invented by Japanese immigrants in the US. They don't eat them in China. And the gong at the end… https://t.co/BhgrL3TJE9 - Ben Norton (@BenjaminNorton) July 9, 2026 Anti-Asian racism has also roiled the Arizona Republican Party. The state’s GOP primary race for schools chief was recently rocked by a racist incident in which a dark-money group put out a bigoted ad with gong noise and stereotypical Asian imagery that labeled candidate Kimberly Yee, who is Asian American, as the “empress of DEI.” Yee’s primary opponent, incumbent Tom Horne, has requested that the group remove the ad. “I am shocked by the appeal to ethnic prejudice and denounce it,” he told Phoenix television station KPNX. The ad bears some similarity to a bigoted ad out of Arizona ahead of the 2022 midterms — a commercial I thought might have been the most racist ad of that year’s election cycle. And more recently, a top official for Arizona-based Turning Point USA, Tyler Bowyer, has faced condemnation after he questioned whether a Republican state lawmaker who escaped Vietnam as a child can speak English . The attacks underscore the exploitative posture that some in the GOP have taken toward Asian Americans. In lawsuits seeking to kill affirmative action policies on college campuses, for example, white conservatives have often portrayed themselves as allies to Asian Americans, who they dubiously claim have been harmed by diversity initiatives. Republicans don’t seem to have much to run on this year when it comes to policy. Polls have shown Americans broadly oppose President Donald Trump and the GOP’s agenda . So it seems the party is leaning into voter suppression gambits and overt racism as it tries to maintain power. The post Republicans lean into anti-Asian racism ahead of midterms appeared first on MS NOW .