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.

  • BReel@lemmy.one
    9·
    6 months ago

    I don’t like it, but in reality I have 2 choices.

    1. Someone who is supporting awful things around the world, but will (at least temporarily) protect myself and my community. or
    2. 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.

    • Moneo@lemmy.world
      5·
      6 months ago

      It’s absolutely bonkers to me that people think not voting for Biden will somehow help Palestinians.

      • Tryptaminev@lemm.ee
        1·
        6 months ago

        Well, By telling Biden “it is okay, you will be voted no matter what” you encourage him to be his worst. The goal is to threaten and punish Biden if he does not uphold checks notes basic human rights, international rule of law and not being complicit in the worst crimes of humanity.

        The DNC laughes about you and they are happy to fuck you over once elected again. And with you i mean everyone who is not super rich, or white upper class liberal. Believing the DNC would stick it out for LGBT rights is laughable given how happy they are to murder other minorities.

    • anticolonialist@lemmy.cafeEnglish
      12·
      6 months ago

      Democrats havent done a damn thing to protect our community, endless lip service about rights and protections while doing nothing causes more harm

      • BReel@lemmy.one
        1·
        5 months ago

        So the people doing nothing are causing more harm than the people actively hunting and persecuting me?

        I’d disagree. That’s like saying my neighbors who didn’t put out the fire in my house are just as bad as my other neighbor who started the fire in the first place.

        We have two choices.

        Democrats haven’t done a damn thing…

        • anticolonialist@lemmy.cafeEnglish
          11·
          5 months ago

          Except in your bad up scenario, neighbor 1 provided the matches to neighbor 2.

          YOU have 2 choices, neither of them is on list list. Theres a larger chance of you voting republican than me voting for either

          • BReel@lemmy.one
            1·
            5 months ago

            Dems did not supply the matches lol. Republicans showed up with a flame thrower.

            But whatever. There will be no winning you over, even with facts provided. Later boo