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.” ***
This is the new mantra of the Never-Trumpers.
After getting Roe v Wade struck down, there is no more purpose to supporting Trump.
Why are we still posting garbage from Drudge ?
WHO?????..../s
I have supported and still do Tony Perkins. I have already sent him off a note and hope to hear directly from the organization rather than an article.
I support Donald Trump and let him know in an email that I do....if we divide against ourselves we will go down...
“…evangelicals don’t want a lot of drama…”
Too bad. We need warriors.
Slowly and carefully, so they don't get backstabbed...
Once they knew they had gotten away with it, the 2022 "elections" were "engineered" for specific outcomes.
They didn't have enough money to to cover everything ["votes" cost money], but they got most of what they wanted - to damage Trump and MAGA.
You can tell they ran out of vote-rigging dough by the New York and California US House results. They put those races on autopilot, and that's where the truth leaked out.
Oh so you believe the elections were honest?
Even after the Musk twitter revelations and Arizona fiasco?!?!
You really need to get up to speed.
BTW, I have a cat named Pollywog. She's a real sweetheart!;-)
Not sure this article indicates an “exodus...”
“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.”
Trump is focused on 2020 because he was cheated out of a second term and because until 2020 is fixed, no GOP candidate will be elected...They may be selected by the powers that be, but not elected.
Doesn’t want drama in 2024? Not surprising as many of these organizations have been silent for past few years. What a snowflake coward!
Whoever they are, they won’t be missed.
I have “friends” who say that hated and did not vote for Trump b/c of his attitude! Clearly, these ppl are idiotic numbskulls!
Tony Perkins sounds like the type of religious leader who would have tens of millions of votes lined up for Barabbas.
that’s exactly right...Conservatives with power are going to have to figure out how to stop this in 2024...At least cut it waaaaay back....
Giving a bad name to their genre. Biden has done the same of us.
Indeed the last time I went there I got a not safe warning.
In other words, someone that was opposed to Trump in 2016 and bitter that lyin' Ted lost.
Take your Never Trump horse manure and freep off.
They shouldn't be allowed here.
Thank you for your note. I miss my cat so much... her name was Holly.
Praying much for the elections in 2024 and for our country in the meantime.
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