Donald Trump on Sunday celebrated a survey finding 45 percent of gay-identified men are planning to vote for him in the 2020 election, published this week by the gay dating app Hornet. “Great!” Trump tweeted on Sunday, retweeting a Newsweek article highlight the survey.
The survey, which sparked interest on social media and Tucker Carlson’s show on Fox News, “falls short of providing an accurate picture of the LGBTQ electorate,” experts in online polling told the Washington Blade.
Jason Turcotte, an associate professor of communication at Cal Poly Pomona, said the survey produced “an interesting finding,” but at the same time is “unlikely to be representative of the broader LGBTQ community.” “To hold up this poll as evidence that the