Republicans, looking to take back Virginia’s 10th Congressional District, picked a fresh face from Vietnam to represent the diversity that the party sorely needs on the ballot, say observers.
Hung Cao, 50, a former U.S. Navy special operator, said that the defining moment for his decision to run for Congress was the fall of Afghanistan.
“Nobody wants to do this,” Cao told The Epoch Times about his run for Congress, “but when you feel an obligation, you do it.”
Cao, a refugee and immigrant, said the similarities to the fall of Saigon were startling, and personal for him, as his family escaped Vietnam in 1975 on the proverbial last plane out….