Back in January, the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative public policy think tank, released a survey that determined 52% of single heterosexual women are less likely to date a Donald Trump supporter — with only 36% of single heterosexual men saying voting for Trump would be a dealbreaker.
And in the lead-up to Inauguration Day, Hily, a dating app with over 35 million worldwide users, released its own politics and dating study. After surveying 5,000 Gen Z and millennial Americans, Hily determined that 1 in 3 American women would decline a date over political differences. Similar to the AEI survey, Hily’s study determined that only 1 in 10 American men would decline a date for the same reason.
These results could very well explain the suspicious trend of heterosexual men misrepresenting their political leanings on dating apps: Specifically, they put “moderate” on their profiles or act vague about their politics to increase their chances of matching with women who deliberately put “no conservatives” in their own profiles. These so-called “moderates” connect with liberal women, only for them to discover that their matches voted for Donald Trump in the last election (a dealbreaker for many).
