Anderson Cooper chimed in Thursday on Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance’s current declare that former President Donald Trump is prone to win the “regular homosexual man vote.”
Throughout a panel dialogue on his present, “Anderson Cooper 360,” the CNN anchor mentioned he was curious to know precisely the place Vance would make a distinction between “regular” and “not regular” homosexual males.
“At first I used to be like, ‘Oh, JD Vance thinks there’s regular homosexual individuals.’ So I suppose that’s type of progress,” Cooper, who’s homosexual, mentioned. “I’m curious to know what the distinction — the place the road is between a ‘regular’ homosexual individual and a ‘not regular’ homosexual individual.”
He then instructed Vance could presumably draw the road at “something associated to pull,” earlier than taking a cheeky dig at Trump.
“Carrying as a lot make-up as Donald Trump wears, that may be thought of not regular,” he quipped. “It’s fantastic for Donald Trump, however on a homosexual man, that wouldn’t be thought of regular.”
Vance made the questionable declare in a Thursday interview on Joe Rogan’s podcast during which he alluded to a homosexual pal who was a dedicated conservative. He contrasted this man with different members of the “loopy” broader LGBTQ+ neighborhood, particularly transgender and nonbinary individuals.
“I wouldn’t be shocked if me and Trump gained simply the traditional homosexual man vote as a result of once more, they simply needed to be left the hell alone,” he mentioned, earlier than suggesting implausibly that extra highschool graduates have been figuring out as transgender to boost their odds of moving into Ivy League faculties.
Vance’s remark ignored the staunchly anti-LGBTQ platform that Trump embraced throughout his first time period ― one thing which many supporters of Vice President Kamala Harris shortly identified on social media.
