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I'm Michael Beranowski, a professor of political science at Northern Kentucky

University. Today, in part eight of our election 2020 series, we'll be discussing how the Trump

and Biden camps differ on race and gender issues. Now, during this episode, I'll be using,

I guess you could call them shorthand terms for the three main issue areas we'll be discussing, LGBTQ plus issues, women's issues, and racial justice issues.

And to start with, I wanted to say that I recognize that these terms, some people can see them as somewhat problematic because they can be taken to imply that certain issues are only a

concern of certain groups. But when I thought about alternative formations of this, like

issues that are often a particular concern to women or something like that, that's awfully

clunky. And so we're just going to be using shorter and more conventional phrases

to refer to these general issue areas. And also I wanted to mention before we get started that we

won't be discussing the issue of immigration today. And certainly immigration relates to racial

justice concerns and maybe some of these other concerns we'll be talking about.

But it's important enough that we're going to be talking specifically about immigration and

citizenship on next week's episode of this series.

All right.

With that, we will get started.

And what we'll get started by talking about is, first off, LGBTQ plus issues and the case for President Trump on these

issues. In other words, the argument, why is it, or what positive things has the Trump administration

has President Trump done in terms of LGBTQ plus issues? So who wants to get us started on this?

Olivia.

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