Taiwanese pollster says Tsai's landslide victory due to "monstrous Han phenomenon" that created fear among large portion of electorate

Taiwan News
Date: 2020/01/12
By: George Liao, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — A pollster claims to have analyzed why Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) won her reelection with a record-breaking 8.17 million votes in the 2020 presidential election, beating her major rival, the Kuomingtang’s (KMT) Han Kuo-yu, by 2.64 million votes.

You Ying-lung (游盈隆), an opinion poll expert and chairman of the Taiwanese Public Opinion Foundation, said in a Facebook post on Monday that the opposition KMT party should have been able to win both the presidential and legislative elections following its landslide victory in the 2018 local elections, which saw the party win 15 mayoral and county commissioner seats out of 22.

Before 2018's local elections, 13 cities and counties in Taiwan were governed by Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) mayors and commissioners, but after the elections, that number shrank to only six.

You said that Han had been a jobless middle-aged man for many years before he swept onto Taiwan’s political scene by winning the Kaohsiung mayoral race in 2018 and becoming the KMT’s presidential candidate in 2019.    [FULL  STORY]