their own voters. that s the key. they re scared of them and don t understand them. it s an important dynamic taking shape in this primary. and you know jamelle, i was taking a look at this, i ve covered more closely in some ways, the democrats are very heterogeneous coalition. we ve got old white politicians who go to barbecues in black neighborhoods in urban environments and black churches when they have to do code switching. that s when it gets cringey. you get the senate candidate who shows up at four latinos. that s part of politics, doing that stuff. but there is at least an authentic connection to black voters, to latino voters, to the different voters in the fabric of the party. there is just a missing piece in republican politics right now. i think that s right. i think also one of the key differences between the two
j-i-e-u-n. reporter: born in seoul, south korea, jieun ko was 2 when she moved to virginia with her family. this is a picture of me eating cheetos. reporter: but because of the language barrier, an immigration officer wrongly but legally renamed her chi. so i m stuck with this name. reporter: for three decades jieun struggled, straddling two worlds with two different identities. at home i m jieun, at school i m xi. it was this natural code switching that happened because of the name. reporter: then two years ago when the atlanta spa shootings happened and they were reading the names on the news of these women who had been murdered who were asian, a lot of them were misspelled, a lot of them were missing half of their names, and it was traumatizing. reporter: jieun wasn t alone. according to vivian lui, head of asian american studies at new york center college, it was a