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CA House Dem candidate claims he’s ‘fluent’ in Vietnamese, but relies heavily on translator
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1:00Now PlayingA California Democrat running for the US House of Representatives claims he’s “fluent” in Vietnamese — but has been enlisting a translator to help him answer questions during campaign events and media interviews.
Derek Tran, an employment lawyer and Vietnamese American who is running to unseat Rep. Michelle Steel (R-Calif.), has boasted of being “the only candidate that speaks fluent Vietnamese” in California’s plurality-Asian 45th Congressional District, which includes parts of Orange and Los Angeles counties.
“Being able to communicate with these older Vietnamese[,] I plan on organizing door-to-doors with my campaign,” Tran told the Orange County Register in October 2023.
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