President Joe Biden’s re-election campaign unleashed a new organizing weapon in its arsenal on Wednesday in an effort to drum up LGBTQ+ support for his campaign.
Campaign manager Julie Chávez Rodríguez described LGBTQ+ voters as a secret weapon for the upcoming elections.
“LGBTQ+ voters are a force to be reckoned with,” he said in a statement to the Advocate. “They were instrumental in our victory in 2020 and will be instrumental in winning again this November.”
The campaign drafted new messaging to appeal to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer voters, urging them to unite behind the “Out for Biden-Harris” agenda.
They also released a new video featuring Vice President Kamala Harris, urging LGBTQ+ voters to “come out” for Joe Biden.
Harris praised Biden for elevating gay, lesbian and transgender officials in his administration
Harris praised Biden for elevating gay, lesbian and transgender officials in his administration
The video also features old footage of Harris’ remarks at a 2022 LGBTQ+ Pride event at the White House.
‘We will do what we have always done in this movement, in this community, that is, collectively, we will continue to build unity. “We will continue to build a coalition,” he says in the video. “We will always be motivated to know that we have much more in common than what separates us.”
Harris urges LGBTQ+ voters to text “OUT” to the campaign to join her effort to rally voters.
The campaign released a new video featuring Vice President Kamala Harris, urging LGBTQ+ voters to “come out” for Joe Biden.
A poll released in March by the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) showed that likely LGBTQ voters preferred President Joe Biden over Donald Trump by 53 percentage points nationwide.
The poll found that likely LGBTQ voters supported Biden by 68 percent and only 15 percent supported Trump.
That’s a six-point drop for Biden in the LGBTQ community since the 2020 election.
A GLAAD from October 2020 survey showed that 74 percent of likely LGBTQ voters supported Biden and 17 percent supported Trump.
Chávez Rodríguez warned LGBTQ+ voters that former President Donald Trump would harm his community if he was re-elected as president.
“LGBTQ+ Americans couldn’t have more at stake in this election: Donald Trump and his extremist allies are running to destroy LGBTQ+ rights and erase history as their top priorities,” he said.