Democratic candidates are floundering backwards after a barrage of TV attack ads highlighting support for transgenderism and male participation in women's sports.
“Crazy liberal Kamala is for them/them. President Trump is for you,” the kicker said at the end of the wide-ranging news story. pro-Trump TV ad.
A popular theme is helping the Republican Party regain key support from women voters. “One of the things we're seeing in focus groups is that mothers are clearly furious about this issue,” said Republican pollster Jim McLaughlin. told of new york times. “This is a question of fairness. They don't want their daughters to lose their lives. [sports] They have scholarships and I don't want them to get hurt. ”
Mr. Trump and other Republican candidates have invested heavily in this topic, polarizing Democratic voters and swing voters.
For example, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) hit with a hammer His opponent in Texas, Rep. Colin Allred (D-TX), said during the debate:
The attack was so damaging that Allred reversed his stance on transgender issues.
Transgender advocates complained that Allred's withdrawal would reduce turnout because the Democratic base is pro-trans.
“Democrats have largely ignored it.” [campaign] advertisement … [but] “Colin Allred became the first major Democratic candidate this election cycle to capitulate to a seemingly Republican message,” said Erin Reed, a male author who identifies as a woman. complained.
He continued:
Colin Allred's ad can be seen as an alarming signal that the risk of capitulation is ever-present. Transgender rights advocates will need to continue to pressure Democratic candidates to uphold their value as human beings and their importance as voters.
Progressive YouTube advocate Mike Figueredo said Allred “threw transgender people under the bus.” complained In video. “Democrats who abandon transgender rights do so at their own peril.”
Senator Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) Running away too From his record of transgender advocacy, according to an Oct. 16 post on LGBTQnation.com:
brown advertisement This is in response to a smear campaign by the Ohio Republican PAC Senate Leadership Fund. spent Millions of dollars for ads that attack transgender people. One ad states that Brown “voted multiple times to allow transgender biological males in women's sports” and “supported allowing minor children to undergo gender reassignment surgery.” There is.
“This is exactly what you want as a Republican candidate: to force your opponent to surrender,” said Terry Schilling, president of the American Principles Project, which has helped amplify popular issues in Republican politics. says.
he told Breitbart News.
They're damned if they do, damned if they don't, and they have to choose: Do they want to lose their base in an attempt to save swing voters? Or do they want to maximize their base by giving up on swing voters? That would force them to make very difficult decisions that most politicians are unwilling to make.
“Since early August, Republicans have spent more than $65 million on television ads on these topics in some of the most competitive states in the country.” new york times I wrote,addition:
“This is one of the issues that Democrats are furthest from the center of the country,” said Republican ad production company Brad Todd, who has produced commercials about transgender issues for multiple campaigns this year. “They're doing something completely illogical to appease a very radical minority at their core.”
Many polls show that the public opposes core tenets of transgenderism, such as demands for men to have free access to women's sports, women's sports, restrooms, and other same-sex-only spaces and facilities. shown. For example, this month, Center Square carried out The poll found that 59 percent of 2,650 registered voters oppose treatment of transgender-related minors. 88% of Republican voters, 56% of independents, and 33% of Democratic voters oppose this treatment.
The issue will help win back the majority of women who oppose the Republican Party's abortion record, Schilling told Breitbart News.
What we found in our polls and focus groups is that women in the suburbs are really upset about abortion, but they also don't like men taking over their private spaces, men taking over their sports, etc. He doesn't even like the idea of doing so. I don't like performing gender reassignment procedures on minors. that's not enough [for the GOP] To beat the suburbs, you just have to peel the skin…. Probably 5-7% of women.
“Republicans have public opinion on their side on many issues around transgender rights, students and young people,” David Byler, a pollster at Noble Predictive Insights, told Center Square. He added:
If you look at Republican ads, there's a reason why they're always talking about this issue and other related issues. And some prominent Democrats are pushing a moderate, rather than leftist, message.
Republicans know that transgender issues are a strong social issue for them. And since Dobbs, they have definitely been hit hard by abortion many times, so they definitely want to push back and find social issues that are beneficial to them.
This is a Trump ad criticizing Harris for supporting transgenderism.
But Republicans are careful to avoid the Democratic tactic of portraying transgender advocates as weak victims of Republican bullying. This strategy often works because many swing voters want to protect those they see as vulnerable minorities, such as gay and lesbian teenagers who declare themselves transgender and seek support. This is because
Schilling said that in the past, Republican politicians have sometimes taken a cautious stance on the issue.
Last year I give them a B-minus because they were right on this issue and had a popular public position on the issue of women's sports. However, since we are actually running campaign ads this year, I will give it an A. They are spending millions of dollars attacking Kamala on transgender issues. Donald Trump gets an A+.
President Trump's ad was aimed at voters with ties to the U.S. military.
Interestingly, the Democratic Party's vulnerability on this issue is heightened by years of pro-trans coverage by establishment media. wall street journal editorial committee said:
This malleability of the media is one reason why the transgender sports issue has caught Democrats by surprise. The media portrays any opposing views on this issue as outside the political bounds, either not reporting them or dismissing them as prejudices that millions of Americans consider common sense. That means voters may learn about the issue only if politicians make it a campaign issue, potentially eroding Democratic control of Congress this year.
So-called “fact checkers” also rush to the defense of Democrats, even as they ignore the fact that Congress wields broad spending powers to block or advance specific agendas.
Transgender issues should come as no surprise to Breitbart News readers, who have been covering gender-mashing transgenderist ideology since at least 2008.
This problem is further amplified by pro-trans school policies that are often hidden from parents.
