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Top evangelicals are backing away from Donald Trump
SEMAFOR ^ | 12/05/2022 | Shelby Talcott

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.” ***


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KEYWORDS: evangelicals; exodus; shelbytalcott; trump
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To: Kazan
They shouldn't be allowed here.

That's a bit extreme. Maybe they should be confined to their own little playpen, the same way Q followers have been confined. /s

121 posted on 12/05/2022 6:20:08 PM PST by Fresh Wind (Fake news, fake pandemic, fake vaccine, fake election, fake president.)
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To: Kazan

They shouldn’t be allowed here.

********

WHY


122 posted on 12/05/2022 6:38:42 PM PST by deport
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To: vivenne

Thanks for your comment.


123 posted on 12/05/2022 7:11:35 PM PST by nwrep
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To: Drew68
Sure, things could've been worse but by no measure were the midterm elections a success for Republicans, --unless you live in Florida.

And why was the success so good in Florida? Did Florida happen to tighten up it's electoral process after DeSantis barely won against a homosexual crack addict?

Did Florida have a clean and tidy election where all the votes were counted on a single day with a state population of almost 21 million people?

Compare this with the other so called fair elections held in other smaller populated states where counting blackouts happened, snails pace counting and where some races were only just called in the last few weeks.

Why should the GOP have to win by more than the margin of corruptness (vote fraud, Big Tech and FED GOV in cahoots, etc...) everytime and why should we stand for this BS?

And how about all of the school boards across America; how did conservatives do there? These are the grass roots of a revolution.

124 posted on 12/05/2022 7:16:37 PM PST by frogjerk (More people have died trusting the government than not trusting the government.)
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To: avenir

We can sometimes make things better. When it is possible, we can do it. But yes we mustn’t think we can build the workers’ paradise. All such schemes have involved great force suffering and mass murders. And ultimately they just don’t work very well anyway.


125 posted on 12/05/2022 10:59:27 PM PST by faithhopecharity (“Politicians are not born. They're excreted.” Marcus Tillius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: thegagline

Smart on their part.


126 posted on 12/21/2022 6:17:48 AM PST by Brilliant
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