Jim Morgan runs a semiconductor company and supports Trump’s reelection. He’s also gay. He's trying to persuade his fellow New Hampshire Republicans to remove language in the state’s party platform defining marriage as solely between a man and a woman.
And this year, he’s on a crusade: trying to persuade his fellow New Hampshire Republicans to remove the language in the state’s party platform that defines marriage as solely between a man and a woman.
And while support for same-sex marriage has grown, fewer than half of Republicans and Republican-leaning independent voters support it, a 2019 survey by the Pew Research Center found. By contrast, three-quarters of Democrats and Democratic leaners back same-sex marriage. “I’m a Reagan moderate Republican,” he says. “I believe in smaller government, less taxes, less regulation and a strong national defense.”
But critics say Trump’s administration has sided with the evangelical Christians who helped secure his victory, as it has moved to dismantle policies that benefit the LGBTQ community. – as has the national Log Cabin Republicans, which bills itself as the nation’s largest group representing LGBTQ Republicans and their allies. The national group had declined to endorse Trump in 2016.
“I don’t understand how any organization that says that’s what their founding purpose is can turn around and endorse Donald Trump,” said Horn, who now serves as an adviser to an anti-Trump super PAC called The Lincoln Project. “I just don’t put feelings into those things. I look at policy,” he says. “I look at what we’ve done on immigration. What we’ve done on trade. I’m in a business that sells internationally. NAFTA was terrible, horrible. Trump has fixed that.”Morgan’s entrepreneurship is central to his life story. And as he travels the state, he reels off his resume before Republican groups in presentations that feel like early versions of stump speeches.
But he has become more deeply engaged in politics in recent years. In 2016, he won his seat on the town council in Derry, where he now lives. He served a stint as finance chairman of the New Hampshire Republican Party in 2018, before taking the helm of the state’s Log Cabin chapter last year. Asked about the most prominent gay politician of the 2020 cycle, former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Morgan says the Democrat “does a good job of not making” his sexual orientation the top issue in his campaign for his party’s presidential nomination.“My beliefs in capitalism, my beliefs in democracy, my beliefs in the government staying out of people’s lives is much more prevalent than who I sleep with,” he says. He thinks many in New Hampshire agree.
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