US President-elect Joe Biden. Photo by ANGELA WEISS / AFP
MANILA, Philippines — An estimated 60 percent of the around two million Filipino-Americans eligible to vote in the United States voted for Democrat Joe Biden, Philippine Ambassador to the US Jose Manuel Romualdez said.
“The estimate will be a little over 55 or 60 precent [who] probably voted for Biden, mostly living in California, where it’s one of the biggest Filipino community there and it’s known to be a Democrat bailiwick,” Romualdez said in an interview on ABS-CBN News Channel.
“But here in the Northeastern and the South there are a number who voted [incumbent President Donald] Trump,” Romualdez added.
He said that the Philippine embassy already sent a message to Biden congratulating him for his presidential election victory.
Philippine Ambassador to the US Jose Manuel Romualdez. Image from the Philippine Embassy in Washington, DC Facebook page
The embassy also thanked Biden and his running mate, Vice President-elect Kamala Harris for expressing their sympathies to the Philippines following the onslaught of Typhoon Rolly.
“We sent a message to him congratulating him but at the same time we thanked him a couple of days ago,” Romualdez said.
“He and Kamala Harris expressed their sympathy to the Philippines with the recent typhoon so we sent a message and they sent back a message thanking us,” he added.