In the continuing race to see who can throw transgender people under the bus most quickly, South Carolina Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate Annie Andrews has released a new direct-to-camera campaign ad in which she states that she does not support trans athletes playing in sports that affirm their gender identity.

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      Supporting trans people is a winning issue for Democrats but it’s not for conservative Republicans.

      This election specifically Democrats are hopeful they’d get votes from a large portion of traditionally Republican voters so they are pushing a bit on Trans to please Republicans but not too much that they lose their Democrat voters

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        This election specifically Democrats are hopeful they’d get votes from a large portion of traditionally Republican voters

        That’s not just this election. That’s been every election in my memory. They cling to this strategy, even though it keeps failing.

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          Schumer bangs on about having an imaginary Republican couple in his head dictating his every action. If that isn’t a big fuck you to the people who vote democrat I don’t know what is.

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        Trump dubbed Andrews “Annie Trannie” in a social media post Monday and said she favored “Transgender for Everyone.” He also shared a commercial attacking her on transgender issues.

        In a direct-to-camera ad, Andrews retorted, “I want you to hear me loud and clear: I don’t support biological men playing women’s sports and I don’t support and haven’t ever performed gender surgery for minors.” As she speaks, text reading “No men in women’s sports” and “No gender surgeries for minors” appears next to her.

        With Republicans running the state house and senate, has two republican US senators and six of the seven house delegates are republicans this may be a stance you need to take to have a chance in South Carolina.

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          No one that cares about this is going to be convinced by this remark. It gains nothing. The only response that could possibly convince them is to reject the premise. Stay on message.

          ‘I don’t respond to immature internet bullies. No one cares about what they have to say. People are struggling and need Washington to listen to them for once instead of pushing made up culture wars. That’s why in this race. I’m running to ensure that Washington spends less time and money bombing children overseas and more time and money helping Americans here at home. Food prices are too high. Home prices are too high. Healthcare prices can’t even be defined until after a bill arrives. The American people are tired and want real change, not a continuation of what got us here’

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      Trump’s most successful ad during the campaign was against trans and he won the election.

      Democrats are only 30% of voters. Trump wants that other 70% to vote for him.

      Sure, he could be pro universal healthcare instead (he’d get almost all of that 70% if he was), but he’d lose a lot of “donations”. Trans is an easy issue for him without any cost.

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        We already know you’re a transphobe and a conservative, so we can cut the shit where you pretend to have moderate views that you absolutely do not have.

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          You’re an independophobe, and everyone can tell at a glance what your political positions are on anything. Laughable cookie-cutter politics.

          You can continue thinking that the 70% of voters that don’t agree with you are all right wing, but there are 40% of independents that prove you to be wrong indisputably. We’re not all right wing, if we were you’d never, ever win any election ever.

          We just don’t agree with you. Simpleton level math.

          (pew research, 30% of voters are Democrat, and 30% are Republican, and 40% are Independent. We don’t agree with you, and you can’t make us agree with you. Greens, Libertarians, Independents, Socialists, et al)

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      so it would be cool if they said “i don’t support people assigned male at birth playing womens’ sports”?

      what else should be considered apart from the language being used?

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        I genuinely don’t see why anyone cares if trans women play sports. How many trans women athletes could there even be?

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            Fair. It’s just weird to me because the trans community is like 1% of the population so the trans athlete community is what, 1% of 1%?