President Trump dodges question about LGBTQ workplace discrimination, instead claims his “biggest supporters' are from the community.
While the Log Cabin Republicans' endorsement is a win for Trump, LGBTQ voters are a reliable part of the Democratic base,. In the 2018 midterm elections, over 80 percent of LGBTQ people said they voted for the Democrat in their local federal election, while just 17 percent voted for the Republican. And in 2016, 78 percent of LGBTQ voters said they voted for Hillary Clinton, the Democratic presidential nominee, while just 14 percent reported supporting Trump.
Trump’s record with the LGBTQ community is noteworthy largely for its hostile stance toward transgender rights. Even though the Republican Party's national platform endorses only heterosexual marriage, Trump has largely abandoned the “marriage wars” of the past in favor of a more focused attack on Obama-era rule changes that broadened the interpretation of civil rights law to protect transgender rights.
In 2017, the administration moved to ban transgender people from the military, which even the Log Cabin Republicans in its endorsement said it opposes “and will continue to press the administration to reconsider.” And just last week, the Trump administration
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