The Republican Party’s aggressive approach to the culture wars was a big part of President-elect Donald Trump’s landslide victory in 2024, according to a report from the American Principles Project (APP) released Tuesday.

The report found that Republican messaging on transgender issues, such as child sex reassignment, male participation in women’s sports, and taxpayer-funded transgender surgeries for prisoners, swayed voters 1.3 to 2.7 points toward Trump. He said he moved it. Many of the battleground states critical to President Trump’s victory were won by narrower margins, including Georgia by 2.2 points, Pennsylvania by 1.7 points, Michigan by 1.4 points and Wisconsin by 0.9 points.

APP Chairman Terry Schilling told the Daily Caller News Foundation: “This was the first election where the American people finally had enough. They were tired of all the sudden change.” “They had a champion in Donald Trump who was willing to fight them.” (Related: Biden administration’s efforts to get men into women’s sports run out of gas)

Pro-transgender positions are highly unpopular among American voters, with 75% opposed to allowing biological males to participate in women’s sports and 72% opposed allowing children to undergo transgender surgery or drug treatment. I agree to the ban. According to According to a Neapolitan News/RMG Research poll conducted in November after the election. President Trump tapped into that sentiment, and Vice President Kamala Harris took on the political weight of pro-trans policies.

“They were essentially creating an artificial political movement,” Schilling told DCNF. “They built transgender advocacy around all the oppression that is happening to people who identify as transgender, and that turned out to be complete garbage.”

While some Republican strategists have suggested that addressing culture war issues will hurt the party electorally, Schilling told DCNF that the 2024 election will prove that belief wrong. and blamed some Republicans’ cautiousness on culture war issues for the lackluster performance in the 2022 midterm elections. Like transgenderism.

In 2022, the so-called “red wave” electoral victory that followed the Biden administration’s perceived failures did not materialize, but it was partly due to the reversal of Roe v. Wade and the fact that Democrats outspent Republicans by large margins in key states. It was reported that this was influenced by American Heritage Action Report.

“As political consultants and political commentators, you can say whatever you want, but anyone who thinks we shouldn’t talk about the culture wars is just an idiot,” Schilling told DCNF. “This is a major weakness for the Democratic Party, and we should take every opportunity to show the American people how crazy they are.”

Trump’s transition team did not immediately respond to DCNF’s request for comment.

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