The voting power of LGBTQ Americans is significant, and LGBTQ Georgians have another chance to use this power to enact serious, long-lasting change.
In an analysis of LGBTQ voters in key swing states, LGBTQ Nation found that Donald Trump may have won reelection if LGBTQ voters in Georgia, Arizona, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin hadn’t cast their votes for Joe Biden.
Without the levels of LGBTQ voter turnout seen in the general election, LGBTQ Nation found that Georgia never would’ve flipped blue; among non-LGBTQ voters, 2,334,801 voted for Biden and 2,438,721 voted for Trump, leaving Trump to win the state.
However, with an additional 140,340 LGBTQ voters voting for Biden and 24,136 for Trump, Biden took Georgia with a total of 2,475,141 votes