{"id":2334808,"date":"2024-08-31T13:07:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-31T17:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/theyre-all-liars-california-house-dem-candidate-comes-clean-about-his-native-tongue-after-report-outs-him\/"},"modified":"2024-08-31T13:11:18","modified_gmt":"2024-08-31T17:11:18","slug":"theyre-all-liars-california-house-dem-candidate-comes-clean-about-his-native-tongue-after-report-outs-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/theyre-all-liars-california-house-dem-candidate-comes-clean-about-his-native-tongue-after-report-outs-him\/","title":{"rendered":"They\u2019re All Liars: California House Dem Candidate Comes Clean About His Native Tongue After Report Outs Him"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftheyre-all-liars-california-house-dem-candidate-comes-clean-about-his-native-tongue-after-report-outs-him%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2334808&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Derek Tran, \u2064a Democrat\u2064 running for Congress\u200c in California&#8217;s 45th District, aims to challenge Republican incumbent Michelle\u200b Steel. Tran, the son of Vietnamese\u200c refugees, has positioned himself as a candidate who can connect\u2064 with \u200cthe Vietnamese American community, which\u200b represents \u2062a significant demographic in the \u2064area. He <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/vladimir-putin-receives-covid-19-vaccinein-private-kremlin-tells-people-to-take-our-word-for-it\/\" title=\"Vladimir Putin Receives COVID-19 Vaccine\u2026In Private. Kremlin Tells People To \u2018Take Our Word For It\u2019\">initially claimed<\/a> to \u200cbe fluent\u2062 in\u2062 Vietnamese, a statement that\u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-the-washington-post-is-erasing-women\/\" title=\"How The Washington Post Is Erasing Women\">attracted media attention<\/a> and a favorable review in the Los Angeles Times. However, following scrutiny from the New York Post, it was revealed that Tran&#8217;s fluency was overstated;\u2063 he acknowledged speaking &#8220;broken Vietnamese&#8221; and often relies on a translator during public engagements.<\/p>\n<p>While Tran maintains that his military background and personal story resonate \u200cwith \u200bvoters, he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elon-musk-faces-skeptics-as-tesla-gets-ready-to-unveil-optimus-robot\/\" title=\"Elon Musk faces skeptics as Tesla gets ready to unveil \u2018Optimus\u2019 robot\">faces skepticism<\/a> about his ability to earn \u200dthe support of\u2062 a \u2062community \u200chistorically loyal to Republican candidates. Ethnic identity does \u2062appear to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jd-vance-probably-doesnt-improve-trump-election-odds-much-but-he-wont-hurt-them-either-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"JD Vance probably doesn\u2019t improve Trump election odds much, but he won\u2019t hurt them either - Washington Examiner\">influence voter preference<\/a>, and although Tran hopes his heritage will\u200c attract Vietnamese \u2064voters, evidence suggests that Steel has performed well in areas\u2063 with high Vietnamese populations. The narrative of Tran\u2019s candidacy is complicated by \u2064his conflicting statements on language fluency, raising questions about \u2062his authenticity and effectiveness as\u200b a representative.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> <script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_1)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>How do you say &ldquo;whoops&rdquo; in Vietnamese? Derek Tran would like to know.<\/p>\n<p>Tran, 43, is one of those unelected Democrat fresh faces running for Republican-controlled House seats that the media loves to highlight every election cycle. The pattern is the same, but the story always comes with a twist.<\/p>\n<p>This time, it&rsquo;s that Tran &mdash; who seeks to oust GOP Rep. Michelle Steel in California&rsquo;s 45th Congressional District &mdash; is the child of Vietnamese refugees and was billed as the &ldquo;the only candidate that speaks fluent Vietnamese,&rdquo; according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/08\/30\/us-news\/california-house-dem-candidate-admits-hes-not-fluent-in-vietnamese-one-day-after-the-post-exposed-him\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That&rsquo;s no small deal in a district that spans Los Angeles and Orange Counties and where where the largest <a href=\"https:\/\/datausa.io\/profile\/geo\/congressional-district-45-ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">demographic<\/a> is those of Asian descent, who make up over 37 percent of the population. Vietnamese is also the third-most spoken household language in the district.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, Tran received a glowing write-up in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2024-08-30\/vietnamese-voters-ca-45-derek-tran-michelle-steel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Los Angeles Times<\/a>, noting that the district &ldquo;has the largest population of people of Vietnamese descent outside of Vietnam, but has never had a Vietnamese American representative in Washington.<\/p>\n<p>  <script> \t\t\t\tif( ! getCookie( 'ff_subbed' ) ) if( typeof FFADS.replace_ict !='undefined' ) if( FFADS.replace_ict ) eval( FFADS.replace_ict ); \t\t\t<\/script> <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Democrats hope Tran can buck that trend. To beat Republican Rep. Michelle Steel, 69, a formidable fundraiser with deep ties to the Orange County GOP, Tran is pushing to win over Vietnamese voters, many of whom have been loyal Republicans since the 1980s.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Sara Sadhwani, an assistant professor of politics at nearby <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/school-rocket-team-nasa-finals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pomona College<\/a>, said that he has a shot, given that &ldquo;ethnicity and the d identity between candidates and voters does tend to matter.&rdquo; (That being said, Steel is also of Asian descent, and her campaign &ldquo;questioned whether Tran can win a significant percentage of Vietnamese voters, saying their own analysis of primary precinct data showed Steel received more votes in the most Vietnamese-heavy areas of the district than Tran and [primary challenger Kim] Nguyen-Penaloza combined.&rdquo;)<\/p>\n<p>That kind of stuff got pushed to the background in the profile, however, and you read a lot more piffle like this: &ldquo;Tran said that his campaign has been buoyed by Vietnamese Americans who are thrilled to have a candidate who &lsquo;can finally represent us.&rsquo; He said some conservative voters have been swayed by his family&rsquo;s story and his military service; he spent eight years in the U.S. Army Reserve, including a stint on active duty in 2003 on a homeland security detail at Georgia&rsquo;s Ft. Stewart.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>However, stuck at the end of what might as well have been a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/report-democrats-spent-29-million-facebook-advertising-rely-big-techs-political-power\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">paid political advertisement<\/a> for Tran was this paragraph: &ldquo;Tran said Vietnamese was his first language, but he has lost his childhood fluency. He understands most of what&rsquo;s said to him, he said, but uses a translator &lsquo;because I don&rsquo;t want any of my messaging to get lost from my broken Vietnamese.&rsquo;&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Wait, what?<\/p>\n<p>Let&rsquo;s rewind the clock a day, because I think the Times&rsquo; piece reads somewhat differently before a <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/08\/29\/us-news\/california-house-dem-candidate-claims-hes-fluent-in-vietnamese-but-needs-an-english-translator-every-time-hes-asked-a-question\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Post<\/a> story challenged Tran&rsquo;s claim to be a fluent Vietnamese speaker.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;During a Feb. 23 interview with Saigon Entertainment Television, a California-based, Vietnamese-language TV station, Tran stumbled right out of the gate when asked a question in his purported native tongue,&rdquo; the outlet reported.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;&lsquo;In my 10 years working as a lawyer, I&rsquo;ve done a lot of cases dealing with employment law, discrimination, harassment and really wrongful termination,&rsquo; Tran told his interviewer, before going on to discuss his legal career.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;&lsquo;The question was how many years you serve in the Army,&rsquo; she said. &lsquo;So let&rsquo;s address that and then I will cover the rest.&#8217;&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Forget AI putting white collar professionals out of work. Let&rsquo;s worry about reality putting satirists out of work. That seems to be a more pressing concern these days.<\/p>\n<p>For the rest of the interview, he leaned on the translator. That became a common theme in his appearances with the Vietnamese community in the district since.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Four days later, the same translator sat down with Tran for an interview broadcast on Little Saigon TV, asking questions of the candidate in English while repeating his responses in Vietnamese after he spoke,&rdquo; the Post reported. &ldquo;Tran used the same system when speaking to Asian American voters during a June 8 campaign event.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Another appearance shows him reading a speech in Vietnamese off of a sheet of paper and then reading the speech in English,&rdquo; the Post noted, implying he basically got through his halting remarks by relying on phonetically reciting a language he&rsquo;s supposedly fluent in.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/dccc-chairman-forced-issue-embarrassing-correction-rittenhouse-verdict\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee<\/a> initially attacked any intimation that Tran was misrepresenting his fluency.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Army Veteran, small business owner, and Vietnamese American Derek Tran is the pride and joy of Little Saigon, which is one of many reasons MAGA Michelle Steel and her desperate NRCC lackeys know they will lose this November,&rdquo; said DCCC spokesperson Dan Gottlieb via a statement. &ldquo;Instead of launching bad faith attacks on the cultural heritage of the son of Vietnamese refugees &mdash; and openly insulting Vietnamese Americans from multiple generations all across California&rsquo;s 45th &mdash; maybe Steel can find the courage to debate Derek and face up to her years of unchecked corruption in Congress.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Except it wasn&rsquo;t a &ldquo;bad faith attack,&rdquo; since Tran had been very,&nbsp;<em>very<\/em> clear about his bilingualism. In addition to the &ldquo;only candidate that speaks fluent Vietnamese&rdquo; statement, he also told the Orange County Register in October of 2023 that, &ldquo;Being able to communicate with these older Vietnamese[,] I plan on organizing door-to-doors [sic] with my campaign.&rdquo; The implication was that this didn&rsquo;t involve bringing along a translator in tow.<\/p>\n<p>Unsurprisingly, on the same day that the Los Angeles Times hagiography appeared, a separate article was published in the Post in which Tran acknowledged speaking only &ldquo;broken Vietnamese,&rdquo; does not have fluency in the language, and uses a translator &ldquo;because I don&rsquo;t want any of my messaging to get lost.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>So, in other words, he lied. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/kamala-harris-breaks-biden-told-dropping-really-true\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Completely unlike other Democrats<\/a>, of course.<\/p>\n<p>I&rsquo;m assuming the L.A. Times wasn&rsquo;t planning on showcasing this side of Tran, however, when they initially started putting this profile together &mdash; hence, the hastily appended penultimate paragraph about that broken <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/vietnamese-restaurant-erupts-raucous-cheers-trump-walks-need\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vietnamese<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But the L.A. Times being the L.A. Times, they managed to smooth things over with the final graf: &ldquo;Vietnamese elders, Tran said, have told him that they appreciate that he is making an effort.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Right. 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Derek Tran is curious. At 43, Tran is one of the new Democratic candidates aiming for Republican-held House seats, a narrative often favored by the media during election seasons. While the storyline remains consistent, there\u2019s always an unexpected element. In this instance, it\u2019s that Tran\u2014who is challenging GOP Rep. Michelle Steel in California&#8217;s 45th Congressional District\u2014is the son of Vietnamese refugees and has been described as \u201cthe only candidate who speaks fluent Vietnamese,\u201d according to the New York Post.<\/p>\n<p>This detail holds significant weight in a district that encompasses parts of Los Angeles and Orange Counties, where over 37 percent of residents are of Asian descent. Vietnamese is also the third most commonly spoken language at home in this area. Recently, Tran received positive coverage from the Los Angeles Times, which highlighted that this district has more people of Vietnamese descent than any other place outside Vietnam but has never had a Vietnamese American representative in Congress.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats are optimistic that Tran can change this trend. To defeat Republican Rep. Michelle Steel\u2014a strong fundraiser with deep connections to Orange County Republicans\u2014Tran aims to win over Vietnamese voters who have largely supported Republicans since the 1980s. Sara Sadhwani, an assistant professor at Pomona College nearby, believes he stands a chance because \u201cethnicity and identity between candidates and voters tends to matter.\u201d However, Steel also shares Asian heritage; her campaign questioned whether Tran could secure substantial support from Vietnamese voters based on their analysis showing Steel garnered more votes than both Tran and his primary opponent Kim Nguyen-Penaloza combined in areas with high concentrations of Vietnamese residents.<\/p>\n<p>Despite these concerns being somewhat overlooked in his profile piece\u2014which included statements like how excited local Vietnamese Americans are to finally have someone who can represent them\u2014there was a notable admission towards the end: \u201cTran mentioned that while he grew up speaking Vietnamese as his first language, he has lost much of his fluency over time.\u201d He stated he understands most conversations but relies on a translator so as not to miscommunicate due to his limited proficiency.<\/p>\n<p>However, just one day prior to this article&#8217;s publication came another report questioning his claims about fluency after an interview where he struggled when asked questions in what was supposed to be his native language during an appearance on Saigon Entertainment Television\u2014a California-based station broadcasting primarily for a Vietnamese audience.<\/p>\n<p>In subsequent interviews within the community since then\u2014including one four days later where questions were posed first in English before being translated into Vietnamese\u2014he consistently relied on translation assistance rather than demonstrating fluency himself.<\/p>\n<p>The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee initially dismissed any suggestions that Tran might be misrepresenting himself regarding language skills; they emphasized pride for him as part of Little Saigon\u2019s community against attacks from opponents like Steel regarding cultural authenticity or background issues.<\/p>\n<p>Yet it wasn\u2019t merely unfounded criticism; there were clear discrepancies between what Tran claimed about being bilingual versus acknowledging using translation services because he didn\u2019t want messages lost due to limited proficiency levels\u2014a contradiction evident even within articles published simultaneously by different outlets covering him around election time.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately though\u2014the L.A Times managed some reconciliation with their closing statement noting how older members within Vietnam&#8217;s diaspora appreciated efforts made by candidates like him despite challenges faced along those lines!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2334809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Picture-2024-08-31T094359.021.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[4045,3728,14567,39811,5894],"class_list":["post-2334808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-california","tag-election","tag-honesty","tag-native-language","tag-politics"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Picture-2024-08-31T094359.021.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2334808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2334808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2334808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2334809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2334808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2334808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2334808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}