The Donald Trump campaign released a promotional commercial featuring Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a move to appease the Indian diaspora on Saturday. The 104-second video contains clips of events like ‘Howdy Modi’ and Namaste Trump, which had attracted sizeable viewership and support.
“America enjoys a great relationship with India and our campaign enjoys great support from Indian-Americans!” the national chair of Trump Victory Finance Committee, Kimberly Guilfoyle, tweeted while releasing the commercial titled ‘4 more years’, which has since garnered over 97,000 views.
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The video starts with the ‘Howdy Modi’ event, where Modi was accompanied by Trump and greeted by over 50,000 Indian-Americans. “Mr Trump, in 2017 you had introduced me to your family, now I have the honour to introduce you to mine,” Modi said during the event, gesturing towards the audience. The next clip is from the ‘Namaste Trump’ event held in Ahmedabad and Trump is shown saying. “America respects India, and America will always be a faithful and loyal friend to the Indian people.”
The pitch is the result of recent research conducted by Al Mason, who also conceptualized the video, that pointed out that Indian-Americans who generally vote for the Democratic party have started switching to the Republican party as a result of Modi’s immense popularity and the Modi-Trump friendship.
The virtual Republican National Convention will be held next week and Trump is expected to deliver his nomination acceptance speech on 27th August in the White House Lawns.
