In a debate.. Besides the optics...
All Trump needs to do (or have a question posed by the moderator) to get mayor Butt-i-jiggle to start talking about being gay during the debate.
That alone will turn off many people. Many may say that they are Ok with it. But, when they pull that vote lever, in private, it is a different story.
-——Many people——
“Many people” are mostly women who lack the intellectual fortitude to resist being politically correct.
You are dead on, absolutely correct