And Mr. Bevin, the Republican incumbent governor, has had difficulty shoring up his conservative base . The messages they have relied on to halt progress on transgender rights — mostly dire-sounding warnings about predatory men being allowed into girls’ locker rooms and women’s restrooms — have not done all they had hoped. JoDee Winterhof, senior vice president for policy and political affairs at the Human Rights Campaign, said she believed the new ads revealed a sense of desperation among social conservative activists. “This is where they had to land because none of the rest of it worked,” Ms. Winterhof said. Greg Abbott backed away from supporting a “bathroom bill,” as the proposals are known, even though he had pushed for one the previous year.

Source: New York Times November 04, 2019 01:30 UTC