Donald Trump has predicted that
President Barack Obama's recent announcement in support of gay
marriage will cost him votes.
Appearing on Fox News earlier this
month, Trump said he believes Obama's gay marriage nod will steepen
the incline the president is facing in several must-win states.
“It's a very risky move, I think,”
Trump told host Neil Cavuto. “I think in terms of raising money,
probably it's a positive, but you have a couple of states which
really will tilt the other way, I think, because of what he did
yesterday.”
Referring to North Carolina, Virginia
and Indiana, Trump said they were “more than swing states, you have
to win them. Either has to win them.”
“And yet they are very much opposed
to what the president said yesterday. And as soon as I heard it, I
said, 'Well maybe he's going to raise some funds, but he's going to
lose those three states.'”
During Trump's brief flirtation with a
run at the White House as a Republican, he said he was opposed to
marriage and civil unions for gay couples. Trump said he opposed gay
nuptials because he doesn't “feel good about it.”
(Related: Donald
Trump Jr. supports gay marriage.)