President Donald Trump hailed a new poll by sharing a tweet with his 86 million followers, revealing that 45 percent of American gay men plan to vote for him in November.
“Great!” Trump on Sunday a Quote Retweet About the results of the survey.
The survey was conducted by the gay social network Hornet. The company said it has sought survey responses from its user base and has received 10,000 responses worldwide for its candidate poll. According to global results, the Trump Democratic presidential candidate is 34 percent to 66 percent behind Biden, but the gap jumped from 32 points to 6 when Trump broke the 1,200 respondents who reported being U.S. citizens, with Trump at 45 percent and Biden at 51 percent.
Hornet, who says it has more than 25 million users worldwide, warned that the survey was an exercise of “voluntary choice”, not a representative survey that could predict turnout in the 2020 election.
“In effect, the only thing really measured by Hornet’s results is the opinions of Hornet users who chose to take the survey, not widespread Hornet user support, not gay American men, and certainly not the broader American LGBTQ community,” the company’s website said following the poll’s media coverage. . “Nevertheless, the data below is an interesting peek into the community – intrusive men – despite the data available regarding the LGBTQ community as a whole, rarely surveyed.”
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and Kier voters have historically been reliably blocking Democratic voting. In the 201st presidential election, GB 78% of LGBTQ voters supported Hillary Clinton, while only 1% said they supported Trump, according to exit polls. And in 2018, eight percent of LGBTQ voters backed the Democratic candidates in their districts.
Last year, LGBTQ’s conservative group, the Log Cabin Republicans, backed Donald Trump for re-election in 2016, despite his lack of support. The support sparked outrage in the organization, and the group’s executive director resigned.
Because of the Covid-19 epidemic, the Republican National Committee did not adopt a new platform for the 2020 presidential election, preferring to walk on the party’s 2016 platform. That platform, Orgefel v. Hodges condemns the Supreme Court’s 2015 ruling, and calls for a “return to traditional marriage” based on “marriage between a man and a woman,” a “free society.”
In addition, the so-called “religious freedom” law extension platform, used to allow businesses to deny services to LGBTQ people, the Center for American Progress says it is licensed to discriminate against LGBTQ people, women’s religious minorities and them. . Unrivaled people. “
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