America's largest LGBTQ rights group plans $15 million swing state blitz to re-elect Biden
America's largest LGBTQ rights group plans $15 million swing state blitz to re-elect Biden
The Human Rights Campaign is launching a spending push in six key states to rally “equality voters” — and warns that many still need to be persuaded to vote for Biden.
And after crunching the numbers, the organization sees warning signs in the form of soft support for Biden in the 2024 electorate.
HRC estimates that this year there will be 75 million “equality voters” — who vote based on support for LGBTQ rights — up from 62 million in 2020 and 52 million in 2016. But the group says one-third of them aren’t a lock for Biden. In the six key swing states, hundreds of thousands are “at risk of not voting,” and another group of hundreds of thousands of voters are what HRC refers to as “double doubters” who will likely defect to a third party, according to data HRC shared with NBC News.
This is what I'm voting for Biden on. The fascists and the neoliberals take the same orders on the economy destroying our shared COMMUNal habitat for short term private profit. We're only permitted a vote on how to address the social symptoms of our growth/metastasis addicted capitalist economy we aren't and never will be permitted a vote on.
All we get to vote on as we sink into oblivion are the handling of social issue symptoms. I'm voting Biden because we don't need to ALSO use the country's Presidential bully pulpit to scapegoat LGBTQ, immigrants, pregnant women, etc for it as we sink into oblivion.
That's the only power we have, so why not be kind with it? Here at the end? Just be kind?
67Agreed. Social and climate legislation are the most clear differences in the candidates.
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If you don't like Biden and he wins, you'll have a chance to vote for someone else in 2028.
If Trump wins, that 2028 election is not assured.
53Also, yknow, the next 4 years will be a hell of a lot worse for a lot of people.
10*republicans all powerful and get everything they want. Democrats held back by republicans blocking everything they do.
This isn't the best argument for supporting your party
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Seeing as Trump raised 50% more than Biden in April, Biden needs all the help he can get.
9The best thing they could do is convince Biden to shut up about Israel unless it's to say, "We are stopping all military aid except air defense missiles to intercept rockets and we will not stand in the ICC's way."
9I mean - all power to them.
But Biden and the (so-called) "Democratic" party do not deserve any of this support.
-1What makes you think the dems "deserving" the votes has absolutely anything to do with this? LGBQT+ people be trying to exist and you're asking them if Biden "deserves" their vote?
1What makes you think the dems “deserving” the votes has absolutely anything to do with this?
You really think the Dems are going to accept this support and think, "Gee, we should really do something to protect LGBQT+ folk, like... maybe not reaching across the aisle to the people that will gladly perpetrate mass-murder on them" huh?
If you do, I have a bridge to sell you.
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So rather trump?
1So rather trump?
What do you mean, "rather Trump"? You're getting Trump - unless something really unexpected happens. And Joe Biden doesn't qualify as "unexpected."
Haven't you seen what the memes are saying? They're not saying, "Re-elect Biden!" - they're saying, "Let's pre-emptively blame these people for Biden losing!"
Deep down, everybody knows what's coming.
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You're literally called "Human Rights Campaign" and you're campaigning for someone who is supporting a genocide this minute with weapons. Shameless.
-23Those LGBTQ people are, people. Human beings. Humans.
What a terf post.
14What the hell does Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminism have to do with protesting a Genocide?
-2Genocide denialist or genocide approver?
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The choice is:
- Support candidate that is tacitly okay with genocide
- Support candidate that is enthusiastic about genocide and stripping away LGBTQ rights
- Say nothing and let the second candidate operate unimpeded by your opposition in key states
I mean... come on, let's be reasonable.
10That is not how it works.
It is: "Who wants to get the vote must uphold human rights." The fact that Biden rather wants Trump to win, than to do that should tell you everything about how his second term and the DNC will be after him. Once they think it will gain them some votes from the Republicans, they will start to crack down on LGBT too.
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I feel like I keep hearing the future is stake because we can not let Trump be president, like he literally was our president for four years. This time is different because reasons? And never in any of this is dumping Biden considered sane, because why? So a en egoist wants to run despite being wild unpopular, literally stans for war crimes against a President who said (and he delivered) that we would not get into another war, “ Cmon man” as you Biden jokes say
-25Have you been paying attention in the slightest
11It's because of those 4 years that we can't let it happen again.... He showed us exactly what he would like to do. But now he's had a practice round and can make "better" plans for next time.
8Let's be real here. The man constantly talks about violating the term limits and he tried to take power by violence. Those are pretty big deal breakers.
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How arrogant would voters have to be to vote in favor their rights while Biden is helping murder and violating human rights of brown people around the world?
Campaigning on women's rights while denying women's rights to life around the world.
-28I don't like it, but in reality I have 2 choices.
- Someone who is supporting awful things around the world, but will (at least temporarily) protect myself and my community. or
- Someone who will continue supporting awful things around the world, and will without a doubt persecute and hunt me and my community.
It's a shit choice. But its an easy choice. One candidate is a very real threat to not just myself, but my friends, family, and community. The other is not.
I'd love our magic 3rd option to show up and be viable, but they won't. We all know this.
24Yeah, I'm sure Trump will be your man and the defender of the rights of brown people and women...lol
8The difference is republicans dont pretend to care.
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Because I would like to still be alive and not a second class citizen so that I can do what I can to advocate for those who still need that recognition and aid rather than backslide and have everything be universally worse. Can't rightly do that when I'm getting sent to the fucking camps too.
1You are already a second class citizen to the US government. In this country you either have money or you dont. Anyone without it is treated as a second class citizen, and has no representation in government.
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