This is John Batchel, a conversation with colleague Sadan Dume, of the American Enterprise Institute

and the Wall Street Journal editorial page. His column is on how did the Indian Americans vote in the

recent presidential election. The discovery is, same as everybody else. Here's Sadadanan to identify a basic fact.

Americans vote in one direction for the pocketbook.

More of this later.

Yeah, the economy was the big, you know, it was the top issue.

Economy was the top issue.

Another very big issue was inflation, jobs. And I think, you know,

one of the takeaways from the Cardi-Carding endowment survey that I cited in my Wall Street

Journal column is that, you know, in the end, you know, Indian Americans are voting just like

other Americans. They care about whether they care about the cost of guests,

they care about the cost of groceries,

they care about the business environment.

I happen to know anecdotally, and I think we've discussed this before on your program,

many of them care about the idea of merit merit and the meritocracy.

They don't want their kids to be penalized for being good at math, for

example. And so there were a whole bunch of things, right? So it's a combination of pocket

book issues and also some of these hot button cultural issues, which have really helped

Trump make inroads with this community.