Popular vote winner Hillary Clinton blasted the guy who received three million less votes than her for his administration’s recent anti-LGBTQ attacks, urging Americans to “remember 2018, the midterm elections” and “resist, insist, persist and enlist and make sure our voices and our votes count.” Right on, Hillary:
“We have to face the fact that we may not ever be able to count on this administration to lead on LGBT issues,” the former Democratic nominee said during a speech at a fundraising event for The Center, a community LGBT organization in New York City.
Clinton singled out the Trump administration's February directive revoking Obama-era protections for transgender students, with the Justice and Education Departments telling schools to disregard memos instructing them that preventing students from using bathrooms that aligned with their sexual identity would violate federal law.
The 2016 Democratic nominee added that if LGBT advocates wanted to see progress from the federal government, they needed to focus their efforts on the next round of congressional elections.
The popular vote loser promised during his convention speech “to protect our LGBTQ citizens from the violence and oppression of a hateful foreign ideology,” but hateful domestic ideology targeting LGBTQ people is a whole different story, apparently. This is the kind of bullcrap that’s angering Democratic voters and spurring yuge, early interest in 2018:
63% of Democrats say they're 'very excited' about voting in the 2018 election, compared to only 52% of Republicans who express that sentiment. When you look at the 2018 House picture just among the voters most excited about turning out next year, the lead for Democrats grows to 19 points at 57-38.
"We’re going to keep fighting together side by side for equal rights,” Clinton said during the speech, where she was also honored by the organization. “And we’re going to make sure that nobody turns the clock back on what we’ve achieved as Americans.”