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[–] [S] 6 points 12 hours ago*

This week, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, the official campaign arm of House Democrats, has begun running an ad in South Carolina for Nancy Lacore, the Democratic nominee in South Carolina’s 1st Congressional District. The ad appears to be the first instance of the high-level Democratic organization running an ad targeting transgender people.

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What’s more alarming for transgender people, however, is that the DCCC is behind the ad. Whereas a candidate’s political ad is the candidate’s choice, an ad paid for by the DCCC is the Democratic Party’s choice. That makes this ad the first known instance of the party itself choosing anti-transgender messaging to win an election, a notable development for those watching for signs that explicitly anti-transgender positions, once rare in the Democratic Party, might be gaining steam across the party as a whole.

Democrats are officially embracing transphobia as their campaign.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 hours ago

    Dem Party more willing to be paid what to say than to stand up for what's obviously right.

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  • [–] 1 point 12 hours ago (2 children)

    Dems are going to embrace whatever the polsters tell them.

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 11 hours ago*

    This escalation comes as more and more evidence emerges that anti-transgender ads are ineffective, suggesting that embracing anti-transgender messaging is a policy choice rather than a political calculation designed to win an election.

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