Trump would have won if LGBTQ people hadn’t turned out to vote for Joe Biden in swing states

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Donald Trump may have won reelection if not for LGBTQ voters, a new LGBTQ Nation analysis shows.

If LGBTQ people had all decided to stay home instead of voting in this year’s election, Trump would have won 289 electoral votes and Joe Biden would have lost with 249 electoral votes.

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While the LGBTQ population is much smaller than the cisgender/heterosexual population, LGBTQ people split for Biden at a much greater rate than the general population did. According to a new poll of LGBTQ voters, 81% voted for Biden while 14% voted for Trump.

Applying the poll’s results to the states that Joe Biden is projected to win and using vote totals from the AP, LGBTQ Nation found that four of the states Biden won – Arizona, Georgia, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin – would have gone for Trump in the absence of LGBTQ voters.

Those states represent…

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