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.

  • jsomae@lemmy.ml
    6·
    6 months ago

    Pragmatically, they’re endorsing the lesser of two evils to encourage people to vote for the lesser of two evils. They think Biden being in office will be much better for LGBT people than Trump will be, to the point that it’s worth it to spend millions to encourage votes for Biden. Third parties are very unlikely to win, so it’s not worth it; they could spend millions on some other project to more directly help LGBT people.

    If you think it’s OK to vote for the lesser of two evils, then I don’t see why you draw the line at endorsing the lesser of two evils.

    • delirious_owl
      21·
      6 months ago

      The ethical thing to do is not to endorse someone who is funding a genocide, no matter how much he helps your marginalized group

      • jsomae@lemmy.ml
        1·
        6 months ago

        But why not apply that logic to “The ethical thing is not to vote for someone who is funding a genocide, no matter how much he helps your marginalized group”?