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(10,200 posts)GOP ads on transgender rights are dominating airwaves
https://www.npr.org/2024/10/19/g-s1-28932/donald-trump-transgender-ads-kamala-harris
But in the closing weeks of the campaign, Republican ads focusing on transgender rights are dominating airwaves all over the country.
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The Trump campaign has recently dropped at least $17 million on ads highlighting Vice President Harris' support during her 2019 presidential campaign for access to gender-affirming medical treatment for transgender people.
It's part of a broader Republican strategy casting the Democratic Party as taking transgender rights to extremes.
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"I do think it's just emphasizing that sort of cultural divide that we do see in sport," said Jessica Taylor, a nonpartisan election analyst with the Cook Political Report. Taylor said the issue can appeal to men and swing suburban women, and polling backs that up.