A new wave of LGBTQ candidates

1 big thing

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🗓️ 21 June 2022

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A record number of LGBTQ candidates are running for all levels of office this year, with a 20% increase in LGBTQ candidates for Congress compared to 2020. Plus: a big weekend of international elections. And: DACA, 10 years after it began. Guests: Axios' Sophia Cai; and journalist and founder of Define American, Jose Antonio Vargas. Credits: Axios Today is produced by Niala Boodhoo, Sara Kehaulani Goo, Alexandra Botti, Nuria Marquez Martinez, Lydia McMullen-Laird and Alex Sugiura. Music is composed by Evan Viola. You can reach us at podcasts@axios.com. You can text questions, comments and story ideas to Niala as a text or voice memo to 202-918-4893. Go Deeper: A record number of LGBTQ candidates are running for Congress Texas GOP goes full MAGA at 2022 convention Israel coalition agrees to dissolve parliament and hold early elections Colombia elects Gustavo Petro as country's first leftist president Macron loses absolute parliamentary majority, early results show Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:23.7	Good morning. Welcome to Axios today. It's Tuesday June 21st. I'm Naila Boone.
0:30.0	Here's what you need to know today. What's ahead for DACA 10 years after it began? Plus a big weekend
0:36.4	of international elections. But first, a new wave of LGBTQ candidates is today's one big thing.
0:50.6	A record number of LGBTQ candidates are running for all levels of office this year.
0:55.6	With a 20% increase in LGBT congressional candidates compared to 2020. Axios Congressional
1:01.7	reporter Sophia Kai is reporting on why high Sophia. Hi. Sophia, we've also seen an enormous
1:07.8	amount of legislation targeting LGBTQ Americans. Is that the main motivation for why there are so many
1:14.8	candidates that are also LGBT running right now? It's one of the main reasons, yes. I think
1:20.7	many of the candidates that you see running now have been vocal about the discrimination they've
1:28.6	faced in their personal lives. So that certainly is a part of their motivation and part of their
1:33.6	campaign. And as we see sort of, for example, like red state anti-trans laws, are there candidates
1:39.9	who are specifically saying that's what's motivating them to run? In part, I mean a lot of the
1:45.3	candidates that you see running are in places that are more democratic where they have a better
1:52.3	chance. So while that may be something that they're keenly focused and aware of, they may not
2:00.7	necessarily directly be able to do something about it. What are some of the challenges these
2:05.3	candidates are facing in their campaigns? They have gotten harassment online. And so while during
2:12.7	COVID, those attacks move to Zoom and move to Facebook DMs, there are more and more in-person events.
2:22.8	A lot of them, they straddle more than one marginalized identity. And that means that in addition to
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