Democrats Lost Voters on Transgender Rights. Winning Them Back Won’t Be Easy.
Although there is no evidence that transgender rights was a top issue for most voters in 2024, Democratic strategists believe that these attacks did have an impact. Blueprint, a post-election Democratic polling project, found that among swing voters who broke for Mr. Trump in the final weeks of the campaign, 67 percent believed Democrats were “too focused on identity politics.”
“We try so hard to represent everybody, we alienate everybody,” said Greg Schultz, the national campaign manager of former President Joseph R. Biden’s 2020 primary run.
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