Posted on 07/07/2020 4:54:36 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
Here is a checklist for fans of the greatest of all presidents.
Wheres the wall and is Mexico paying for it?
Wheres the fabulous plan to replace ObamaCare?
Wheres the deal with North Korea to end their nuclear threat?
Wheres the racial healing in retweeting a supporter shouting white power?
Oh, didnt he tell you in February the virus was going to magically disappear and then repeat it to you last week after more than 125,000 Americans died from it?
Now thats a record of failure.
And here is one more question on empty promises for Trumps biggest fans, white evangelicals:
Has Trump delivered for you after the Supreme Courts recent rulings in support of gay rights and abortion rights?
Trumps standing with evangelicals started fraying before the courts decisions.
First, the failure to protect the country from the virus hurt him, especially with seniors.
Then evangelicals of all ages saw a lack of Christian empathy in his attacks on people standing together, across racial lines, to protest police brutality. Were one race and we need to love each other, said Pat Robertson, a major evangelical leader.
To shore up his base, Trump is now resorting to open appeals to white racial grievance.
He has retweeted videos of black and white people fighting. Last week, he retweeted a video of a white St. Louis couple holding guns to threaten people marching for racial justice.
Putting fear into his white base to get them back in line can be seen in his damning comments on protestors. They are all thugs, and hoodlums, even as the instances of rioting are few amid overwhelmingly peaceful demonstrations.
Similarly, Trumps strategy includes demonizing people pulling down statues of Confederate generals. He says they are terrorists. He refuses to admit the damage done by ever-present symbols of white supremacy, including the Confederate flag.
So, exactly which white people are the audience for Trumps acid politics?
Trump won 57 percent of the white vote in 2016. One-third of that support came from white evangelicals. Another 20 percent of Trumps 2016 base of support came from white Catholics, according to a Pew Research Center analysis.
That means white evangelicals and white Catholics made up half of the people who voted for Trump in 2016.
But now several polls showing Trump losing to Democrat Joe Biden by a substantial margin. The decline is due to sliding support from white evangelicals and white Catholics.
In March, nearly 80 percent of white evangelicals said they approved of the job Mr. Trump was doing, [according to polling by PRRI], the New York Times reported in early June.
But by the end of May, with the country convulsed by racial discord, Mr. Trumps favorability among white evangelicals had fallen 15 percentage points to 62 percent, according to a PRRI poll, according to the Times story, by Jeremy W. Peters. The article noted that Trumps white Catholic support is down 27 points since March.
David Brody, the chief political analyst for the Christian Broadcasting Network, recently told Politico that any slippage of Trumps support among evangelical voters would doom him to defeat in November.
Trump is potentially losing those few percentage points of evangelical support in a nation showing increasing support for the Black Lives Matter movement but also dealing, as Brody put it, with everything from the coronavirus to George Floyd and Trump calling himself the law and order president."
If evangelicals are the target of Trumps racial grievance strategy, the bulls-eye on that target are white people without a college degree.
Since the end of May, Trump has lost 15 percentage points of support among whites without a college degree, according to an average of polls by The Washington Post.
He had a 37-percentage point lead among those voters over Hillary Clinton in 2016. It is now down to a 22-point lead over Biden.
There is deadly political consequence for Trumps reelection bid in those numbers.
The loss of those voters is a big reason behind a June New York Times poll showing Trump and Biden basically tied among white voters.
The RealClearPolitics average of polls shows Biden currently leading Trump in six states Trump won in 2016: Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Florida, Arizona and North Carolina.
With four months to go before Election Day, all Trump can do now is ask his evangelical supporters to overlook his failures in exchange for more promises, especially continuing to pack the federal courts with conservative judges who are hostile to abortion rights and gay rights.
He thinks that promise will be enough to motivate evangelicals and Catholics to turn out for him.
You wont have religious liberty you wont have anything, if Biden wins in November, Trump predicted in a recent interview with his former press secretary Sean Spicer, after highlighting his appointment of two Supreme Court justices.
If a few evangelicals decide a few more judges arent worth sacrificing their most cherished principles of Christian love and morality, they may end up voting for a white Catholic.
His name is Joe Biden.
Say what?
To crack Juan upside his hollow overpaid head.
I have to hold my nose to watch Fox News and Juan Williams comes on. He has a point of view he holds to even though the facts are stacked against him.
You’re so smart maybe you should write in Juan Williams.
Sounds about right to me.
What damage would that be, Juan?
You've always been a dope.
He’s not even worth a comment.
Juan’s head is cracked.
Ha ha. Nice try Juan.
I know personally one Evangelical whose support for Trump is STRONGER than in 2016!
Juan Williams is a POS.
The only crack is what the ever-puzzled Juan has been smoking.
Juan Williams is nothing more than a Democrat operative posing as a journalist. His opinion has no credibility or worth.
WILLIAMS IS DUMBER THAN A BOX OF ROCKS.
“Hes not even worth a comment”.
Bingo!
I used to feel the same way about Leo Terrell. But he seems to have seen the light and he despises what the dems have become. Juan disgusts me too, I don’t know if he’s EVIL, STUPID or a combo of the two, but he’s unwatchable.
Because everyone knows the DNC is the party of Christian morality.
Juan just wants to make sure the snowflakes go completely out of their minds when Trump wins again.
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