JD Vancewho opposed same-sex marriage, believes that he and Donald Trump could win the “normal gay vote” in next week’s presidential election.

“I wouldn’t be surprised if Trump and I just won the normal gay vote,” the Republican vice presidential nominee told the podcaster. Joe Rogan Thursday, October 31. “They just want to be left the hell alone and now you have all this crazy stuff on top of it.”

Vance, 40, has a history of opposing LGBTQ+ rights during his short political career and received a score 0 on the dashboard of the Human Rights Campaign Congress.

During his July 2022 Senate campaign, Vance said Mission America that he would oppose the Respect for Marriage Act, which would enshrine federal marriage protections for same-sex and interracial marriages, NBC News reported. The bill eventually passed and became law before Vance was sworn in in January 2023.

The Ohio native has also faced criticism for his comments on transgender rights, according to the report CBS News. Besides a bill that would prevent the State Department from allowing the “X” gender marking on passports, he sponsored lEGISLATION which would prohibit the access of minors to sex-affirmation care.

Vance touched on his anti-LGBTQ+ stances during his three-hour conversation with Rogan, saying transgender identities are a “cult and a religion, but with a big difference.” The daily beast. Vance then said the difference is that “woke things” don’t have “forgiveness and redemption.”

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The senator also appeared to explain why he was against transgender women playing sports, but felt that Americans “don’t really care who you sleep with.”

“They’re pretty open-minded about most lifestyle choices,” he said. “But when you talk about a biological male competing with their teenage years, right, in competitive sports, Americans say, no, no, no, no. . Yes. This is madness. You seek injury to my children. We have to stop this.”