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Republicans lean into anti-transgender message in closing weeks

Donald Trump and other GOP candidates are increasingly targeting transgender people in the election’s closing days, invoking them as boogeymen at rallies and pouring millions into advertising tying Democrats to transgender rights.

At a recent Trump rally in Reno, Nevada, the Trump campaign played a video that included Rachel Levine, the highest-ranking transgender official in the Biden administration, wishing people a happy Pride Month. The crowd booed. When the screen cut to a TikTok video of a drag queen, the crowd booed even louder.

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