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SUPPORTING Trans people is a WINNING issue? Quick! THROW Trans people UNDER the Bus!
-LITERALLY Democrats!
They can't hide their hatred
Supporting trans people is a winning issue for Democrats but it's not for conservative Republicans.
This election specifically Democrats are hopeful they'd get votes from a large portion of traditionally Republican voters so they are pushing a bit on Trans to please Republicans but not too much that they lose their Democrat voters
But at the end of the day it doesn't matter. It's what they do on all of the "controversial issues" since the dawn of time. Biden and Obama both ramped up deportations and poured more into the border than anyone before them. What did it get them... all republican voters still believe they had "open borders".
‘Pushing a bit’
What a way to phrase it.
That's not just this election. That's been every election in my memory. They cling to this strategy, even though it keeps failing.
Surely this time they'll want a watered down version of the thing they keep going harder on!
Schumer bangs on about having an imaginary Republican couple in his head dictating his every action. If that isn't a big fuck you to the people who vote democrat I don't know what is.
Appealing to no one, you say? Can't see how this strategy could fail yet again!
With Republicans running the state house and senate, has two republican US senators and six of the seven house delegates are republicans this may be a stance you need to take to have a chance in South Carolina.
Trump's most successful ad during the campaign was against trans and he won the election.
Democrats are only 30% of voters. Trump wants that other 70% to vote for him.
Sure, he could be pro universal healthcare instead (he'd get almost all of that 70% if he was), but he'd lose a lot of "donations". Trans is an easy issue for him without any cost.