Republicans Are Betting on Anti-Trans Prejudice to Win Swing States

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : Both ads -- titled "Insane" and "Access" -- push a Trump slogan: "Kamala is for They/Them, Trump is for You.
54% : Are they aware, in other words, whether their favored policies are in effect -- do they know more than half the country's states ban gender-affirming care for minors and the Supreme Court is considering upholding such a ban this term, or that about half of states lack explicit anti-discrimination protections for gender identity?
54% : "Already half the states have passed some kind of anti-trans legislation, specifically dealing with kids.
48% : Sports bans were also the anti-trans policy respondents said they supported most, compared with support for bans on gender-affirming care for minors (46 percent), bathrooms bans and bans on teaching about gender identity in elementary school (41 percent for each).
42% : But when Trump puts up images of drag performers at his rallies for the crowd to boo at, these are the messages he's drawing on.
41% : "Trump made an appearance on Tuesday at a barber shop in the Bronx, aired on Fox, in which he claimed, "There are some places, your boy leaves the school, comes back a girl.
40% : "These attacks have become the "closing message" from Trump and other Republican candidates to voters -- as if this were a trial, and this is what they want jurors to have top of mind as they go into deliberations.
37% : "Buoying all this is Trump, who has directed anger against trans people from the rally stage -- mocking drag performers and singling out HHS assistant secretary Rachel Levine, one of very few visible and high-ranking trans members of any administration.

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