A large swath of voters are not keen on voting for a gay married presidential candidate such as former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, according to Democratic pollster John Zogby.
The key issues for many of those voters, notably males and blacks, is his marriage and less so Buttigieg’s sexual orientation, Zogby added.
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“These are the problems that even Buttigieg is hearing all ready in his own focus groups and in other research, that males, African American males, older African American females” have “reluctance” to support him, said Zogby in his weekly podcast.
He said that those voters who are in “traditional” relationships “have expressed not even so much a problem with a gay president as someone who is married and gay.”
The pollster added, “Even if it is unspoken, that could be a problem for Pete Buttigieg, 38, especially in a close battle like this.”
A new Economist/YouGov poll said that the nation is split on voting for a gay candidate.
President Trump said this week that he would vote for a gay president.
The mayor sometimes appears with his husband, Chasten Buttigieg, and some conservative figures have expressed displeasure.
While the president has called their marriage “great,” Rush Limbaugh, the top radio host who the president gave the Medal of Freedom to during the recent State of the Union address, recently said, “Then they’re sitting there, and they’re looking at Mayor Pete, a 37-year-old gay guy, mayor of South Bend, loves to kiss his husband on the debate stage. And they’re saying, ‘OK, how’s this gonna look, a 37-year-old gay guy kissing his husband onstage next to Mr. Man Donald Trump? What’s gonna happen there?”
