Former President Donald Trump invoked panic of Democratic persecution of Catholics at his speech at a Turning Point USA event in Florida on Friday.
"Democrats are after the Catholics almost as much as they're after me," said Trump, while asking how many Catholics were in the crowd and registering some mild surprise at the number of attendees who cheered.
President Joe Biden, who recently withdrew from the race and gave his endorsement to Vice President Kamala Harris, is himself a devout Catholic, and in the most recent presidential election, Catholic voters were close to evenly divided.
"But how does a Jewish person vote for a Democrat? How does a Catholic person vote for a Democrat?" asked Trump.
But Trump revealed a bit more of his thinking when he used his claims of Catholic persecution as a jumping-off point to attack LGBTQ people, and particularly children.
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He launched into an attack on California's recent legislation that shields teachers' right to withhold students' pronouns from parents if they fear the student will be subject to abuse at home, then said that Harris supports "chemical castration" of kids and "forcing every public school in America to let men into women and girls' locker rooms."
"The whole world is laughing at us," he added.
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