⁍ Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Americans have traditionally voted Democratic in greater numbers.

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⁍ Polls show much stronger LGBT+ support for Democratic rival Joe Biden.

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⁍ White House has gone out of its way to court the gay vote this year, holding half a dozen rallies in marginal states.

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– With polls showing a dead heat between Donald Trump and Joe Biden among gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender Americans, the White House has gone out of its way to court the LGBT vote, holding half a dozen rallies in marginal states in the past several weeks. But Tiffany Trump, the president’s fourth child and the headline speaker at a “Trump Pride” event last week, stumbled over the LGBT+ acronym—mangling initials and missing out the “T” for transgender—even as she trumpeted her father’s credentials. “I know what my father believes in. Prior to politics, he supported gays, lesbians, the LGBQIIA+ community,” she told the rally in Tampa, Fla., per the Thomson Reuters Foundation. “He’s never done it for politics and he’s not doing it for politics.” Her linguistic gaffe, though, met with widespread scorn on social media, with commentators spotting an own goal. “It further underscores their complete ignorance of LGBTQ people and culture,” says historian James Downs, who has written a history of gay liberation. “And it further reveals how much of a sham this is.” Activists dismiss Trump’s late decision to target LGBT+ voters in key battleground states as a desperate measure given the administration’s record on gay and trans issues. “This event is a pathetic attempt to hide his appalling record and it’s fooling no one,” says the executive director of Equality Florida Action. “We are tired of Trump’s lies and our community understands a second term would be devastating.”