He's pretty okay with gay people, he cohosted that Catfish spin off show about Trolls, where he was pretty kind to the two feuding gay trolls. He also hosted a few pretty good interviews with a drag queen and challenged Boosie on his homophobia.
I also liked that he platformed Nina Turner, mainstreamed the lady covering LA sheriff gangs, and got a proper prison abolitionist lawyer to grill Eric Adams and make him squirm.
More plausible scenario than winning by appealing to decency and saving democracy