20 Percent Of LGBT Voters Support Donald Trump
- By
- Carlos Santoscoy
- | September 25, 2016
According to a poll released Friday, 20 percent of LGBT voters say they'll vote for Donald Trump in November.
Pollsters at NBC News / Survey Monkey found that a large majority of registered LGBT voters support Hillary Clinton.
Seventy-two percent of respondents said that they favor Clinton, compared to 20 percent who support Trump.
When Libertarian Gary Johnson and Green Party candidate Jill Stein are included, Clinton's support dropped to 63 percent, while Trump's fell to 15 percent. Johnson and Stein received 15 percent and 8 percent, respectively.
In recent months, Trump has campaigned for the LGBT vote, touting himself as a “better friend” to the LGBT community than Clinton, his Democratic rival. But his continued opposition to same-sex marriage, support for North Carolina's controversial anti-LGBT law and decision to pick Indiana Governor Mike Pence as his running-mate are seen to run counter to his claims.