Posted on 12/05/2022 12:28:56 PM PST by thegagline
Call it a crisis of faith. Despite appointing the conservative judges who ultimately overturned Roe v. Wade — and fervently courting the religious right during his presidency — prominent evangelicals are beginning to shy away from supporting former President Donald Trump’s third bid for office.
A major factor is the same issue driving leaders in other parts of the conservative coalition away from his campaign: They’re not sure he can win.
“Evangelicals, conservatives and freedom-loving Americans … the common question is: Who can win in 2024?” Bob Vander Plaats, president and CEO of the Family Leader, told Semafor. “And I believe that’s Trump’s highest hurdle.”
Vander Plaats, who co-chaired Ted Cruz’s campaign in 2016, said he’d had many conversations with conservatives who “really like the former president” but want to move forward with “a vision for the future versus a complaint or critique about the past.”
Some Evangelical leaders are also tiring of the former president’s obsession with trying to somehow overturn the previous election and his ever-growing list of personal scandals and inflammatory statements.
Tony Perkins, the president of the Family Research Council who prayed with Trump in office and defended him at critical moments, suggested Trump remains too focused on the 2020 election and that evangelicals “don’t want a lot of drama” this time around. He said the former president needed to earn their vote by speaking about issues that resonated with them instead — he pointed to Trump’s frequent references to a “war on Christmas” in 2016 as an example.
Vander Plaats and Perkins aren’t the only ones with doubts about Trump 2024. American Renewal Project leader David Lane trashed the former president just last week in his bi-weekly letter to evangelical Christian pastors, according to Religion News.
Christian Zionist activist Mike Evans, who helped pull together the evangelical vote for Trump in 2016, wrote in an essay shared with The Washington Post that even though the president kept his word on issues like judges, evangelicals must stop treating him “like he was an idol” and move on.
“Donald Trump can’t save America,” Evans wrote. “He can’t even save himself. He used us to win the White House.” ***
Why are we still posting garbage from Drudge ?
Not surprising seeing them desert a man who lost 3 elections in a row. People want winners.
Does the name “Evangelicals” even mean anything anymore. most of them have pretty much backed away from the bible.
Did the GOP not win the House? Did the DEMs find more votes? What happened?
enter stage Left....Mike Pence.
The “Never Trumpers” are having a field day in FR here lately....SMH....
“Top”
They shun him for speaking his mind. I embrace him for speaking mine.
I’m an evangelical, first, last and always.
Not so sure.
Trump is not the ideal image for evangelicals but he advances mostly proper things
The alternative is a DNC candidate who is a thousand times less Christian and Who advocates the worst possible immoral values in the history of the Republic.
No real Christian or Jew, no person of any kind with decent moral values — could ever vote for the DNC slime types — especially if someone who gets most things right like Trump is running.
Most people also like his Harry Truman like candor, though it does occasionally walk the thin line a bit
It does not link to Drudge.
Have you been looking at Drudge?
Se Afro is an extreme far left site so take it with a grain of salt.
“Semafor. Darn auto correct
He lost his 2020 general election bid
2018 was more a of Paul Ryan screwing us over then Trump losing the house
2022 McCarthy got the house back, I call that a win.
Sure we lost a couple “vanity” races but overall 2022 wasn’t the red wave we were expecting, but it wasn’t a Dem win either. We won the superbowl by two touch downs instead of 7, we still won.
Compare the country during the four years of Trump with the, so far, two years of Biden...
Compare the country during the four years of Trump with eight years of Obama...
Anyone who does NOT want Trump back in the White House is either an idiot or an enemy of America...PERIOD
These people are completely clueless.
The link doesn’t go to Drudge.
“really like the former president” but want to move forward with “a vision for the future versus a complaint or critique about the past.”
This is how I and others feel
We need someone to move forward, not looking backwards complaining about spilled milk
Trump 2016 was awesome
So you believe the last elections were on the up and up???
Hmmmmmmmmmmm.....
Deserting the man that got wade overturned. Says more about them than it does about Trump.
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