Americans are more likely to say they would reject a candidate older than 70 than a candidate who is gay, according to a new poll.
Events underpinnning the shift included the 2010 repeal of the"don't ask, don't tell" rule that banned openly LGBTQ people from serving in the U.S. military and the 2015 U.S. Supreme Court decision in 2015 that same-sex marriage is a right guaranteed by the Constitution. Trump also has presented himself as an ally of the LGBTQ community."It's now a reality that there's an out gay candidate, who's a Democrat, who may become president," he said.
Democrats, who will decide whether to nominate Buttigieg at state voting contests in 2020, are clearly more supportive of gay presidential candidates than Republicans. According to the poll, 20 percent of Democrats said they were more likely to vote for a gay candidate, compared with 6 percent of Republicans.When it came to their support for gay candidates, the poll also found that minorities were generally more supportive than whites.
The Reuters/Ipsos poll was conducted online on May 29 and June 5 in English throughout the United States. It gathered responses from 2,237 adults and has a credibility interval, a measure of precision, of two percentage points.
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