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Welcome back to a numbers game with Ryan Gurdowski.

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Happy Monday, everyone.

A poll just came out splitting the online left in half.

And I want to talk to you all about it because it shows the level of delusion by activists on the left in this

country on certain issues and how they are unwilling to concede something very obvious to the

rest of us, especially conservatives, but to the American public at large. What am I talking about?

I'm sure you're wondering. There is a guy named Lakeha Jane. I'm pretty sure I'm pronouncing his first name correctly. If I'm not, Mr. Jane, please, I apologize. I'm sure you've never heard of him. He's a software engineer out in California, but he also examines and collects political data for a bunch of left-leaning publications. I don't know him, but he seems to be, you know, fairly left-of-center,

but thoughtful. And even when I disagree with him on his outcome, I say, wow, he's not a dummy.

He really did the work to come to this conclusion, and he's very intelligent, whether or not

I disagree with him or agree with him. Well, on February 17th, he published a piece for a publication

called The Argument,

called The Trans Rights Backlash is Real, and this is how the piece begins. In 2016, North

Carolina's Republican Governor Pat McCroy threw his political weight behind HB2, a measure

commonly known as the bathroom bill, the law which required transgender people to use

public restrooms

corresponding to their biological sex prompted an immense public outcry that resulted in

business boycotts, widespread condemnation, including from Donald Trump himself, and eventually

the end of McCroy's governorship. Today, the landscape around the issue could not be more different. As shown by

the argument's latest national survey of registered voters, in fact, 52% of voters now support

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