MILWAUKEE — With the presidential election just months away, both Democrats and Republicans are working hard to gain voter support.

The Democratic Party hosted an even Saturday for Wisconsin’s Asian and Pacific Islander voters, aiming to rally their support.

“I support Kamala Harris specially because of her advocacy for women’s rights, as an AAPI woman myself,” first-time voter Aashi Iyengar said.

According to Pew Research Center, 62% of Asian Americans identify as Democrats or lean left. 

“We can’t go back,” Acting U.S. Secretary of Labor Julie Su said while reflecting on former President Donald Trump's time in office. “We cannot [go] back. At that time, I’m a mom too. I watched what happened in those four years and I felt kind of helpless. The chaos, the hate, the racism.”

For Republicans, their message echoed something similar, but with an opposing view. 

“We can’t go back,” Brian Schimming, Wisconsin GOP chair, said. “We can’t go back to the last four years. That’s what we can’t go back to.”

Schimming spoke at the Wisconsin GOP’s new Hispanic Outreach Office in Milwaukee to seek support from the Latino community, a group gaining traction for the Republican party.

“The problem here is that they want us to relive the last four years of the Biden administration, which every single poll out there is upside down on grocery prices, on inflation, on the border, on interest rates, on war,” said Schimming. “We have had a really bad four years. People know it.”

While Democrats have historically won the majority of Latino voters in presidential elections, that margin has been declining since 2016.

Guadalupe King, a Wisconsin resident, said traditional values are motivating her to vote for Trump.

“Freedom. Justice. Liberty,” King said. “I think we’re going to come back to that. Unfortunately, I do not think it’s going to happen in my lifetime.”

Both Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance and Democratic presumptive presidential nominee Kamala Harris are scheduled to visit Eau Claire this week to campaign.

“We can make sure we don’t go back to a moment in time in which this country was the opposite of everything our ancestors, ourselves, our communities came for,” Su said. “All the work that we worked so hard to build. We can make sure that doesn’t happen again.”

“With Donald Trump, [who has] had a much larger-than-usual appeal to Hispanic voters across the country — we see it in Texas, we see it in California, see it in Florida,” Schimming said. “I talk to other state chairs all the time, and we see those opportunities out there. I don’t want it to be a missed opportunity here and that’s why we are here.”