A new survey from the progressive polling firm Data for Progress shows that voters across party lines are fed up with candidates using anti-trans rhetoric on the campaign trail.
this election cycle over her support of transgender rights — and stoking fears about transgender people’s presence in public life. that has run nationally and in swing states and is circulating widely online, the Trump campaign takes aim at Harris’ prior support of gender-affirming care for people in prisons. It ends with the tagline: “Kamala is for they/them; President Trump is for you.
The progressive polling firm surveyed 1,216 likely U.S. voters about candidates’ stances on transgender rights. Respondents were asked whether they agreed or disagreed with a series of statements. Asked if they viewed Republican candidates’ use of anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric in their campaigns as “sad and shameful,” 41% of Republicans and 58% of independent voters agreed. That compares to 38% of Republicans and 25% of independents who do The survey also found that 80% of all voters polled, across party lines, agreed that the two major parties should spend more time talking about the economy and inflation than issues related to transgender people.
Trump and Republicans have made big bets this year that anti-trans rhetoric will not only help the top of the ticket, but will help them clinch several competitive races for seats in the House and Senate in what is projected to be theof the U.S. population have not borne fruit in the past.
In the meantime, a majority of Democrats and 45% plurality of Republicans believe the government should have less involvement in the medical decisions transgender people make, according to the new Data for Progress survey. And a 48% plurality of Republicans said that the wave of anti-LGBTQ+ legislation was “too much” and that politicians were “playing political theater and using these bills as a wedge issue.
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