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.” ***
That just doesn’t sound right. 😆
We’ll find out tomorrow. Tomorrow is another trump test. Georgia!
Unlike many in the country, I know that I’m not psychic so I won’t claim to know who other people will vote for.
As such, I vote for the candidate that I prefer, not who I think others prefer.
Trump did surround himself with the worst name-it claim-it prosperity gospel shams. Of course they are deserting... they are sham opportunists. If he looks to succeed they will be back. It’s their modus operandi.
Well isn't that special.
The country is under attack internally by Marxists--and the Marxists are winning--but Tony doesn't think evangelicals want a lot of drama this time around.
Yeah, apparently we need to moveon.org...
Fairweather friends with spines of marshmallow.
The communists have created meaningless “elections” but we don’t want drama as the country goes down the drain of Marxism. Sure... sure.
It might sound naive, but Sometimes it’s best to keep quiet about what you are planning or what you are doing until what is considered the “right” time...
He’s a “dominionist”.
They are afraid of the IRS.
Cowards
Period.
Donald Trump did what no other Republican President has ever done. He has saved numerous unborn children. Abortion has been curtailed in many states, leading to numerous lives being saved. That is an amazing and great legacy! God Bless President Trump.
The “Never Trumpers” are having a field day in FR here lately....SMH....
Deepstaters gonna deepstate.
Does the name “Evangelicals” even mean anything anymore. most of them have pretty much backed away from the bible.
I don’t know what to call Bible believing Christians, used to be Evangelicals, but now that sounds like GOPe.
Unless the incoming Republican House can sufficiently expose the vote fraud schemes of the Democrats to the point where public outrage and legal challenges result in some changes to election procedures and laws, it really doesn’t matter who supports Trump or anyone else or to what extent they do so. The Republican candidate will simply not be allowed to win.
Even all the noise about suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop impacting the election outcome is nonsense. The mechanisms were in place to manufacture however many votes Biden needed on election night. If the laptop had been exposed, all it means is that they’d have had to create more of them. The post-election explanations, dodges and canceling of anyone raising objections would have been the same, as would the final result.
Oh, so they can go back to Romney?
Never Trumps are nothing more than circle jerking losers.
quote “He used us to win the White House”
lol
yeah.. and then used the white house to FINALLY do what every RINO president had said he would do but WOULDN’T appoint judges to overturn Roe V Wade!
Ungrateful leeches
Not sure that the guy who won twice can win.
The problem isn’t whether Trump can win, rather, it is exposing the theft of that win.
cluck cluck cluck!
who in among the parishioners are really closet liberals making mooney in all this chaos?
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