There’s nothing wrong with voting for a person who might personally be rasha but who will, whether due to political reasons or conviction, do the job that we want and protect the Torah world from harm. It’s a mitzvah to do so.
However, voting for an “upstanding” goy or even a frum jew with fabric on hia head who advances abortion, allows our yeshivos to be attacked, and destroying the fabric of society with alphabet soup ideology, is definitely assur.
Zeldin probably picked Esposito because he wanted to scrounge at whatever crumbs he could get – NY is a super liberal state. It was political. I doubt he personally is a lover of the L part of LGBT – he’ll definitely hold back the T part from hurting our lives any more than it already has.