Comment: Pence may try to peel evangelicals away from Trump

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

By Olivier Knox and Caroline Anders / The Washington Post

If you follow politics at all, you’ve heard former vice president Mike Pence recently condemned Donald Trump over the Jan. 6 insurrection. This analysis focuses on Pence’s comments about Trump you probably didn’t hear about, even though he made them at the same event.

If Pence runs for president in 2024, as he has hinted he will do, he and his former boss — actually, the entire GOP field — will compete for the support of hard-right Christian voters. So when the former vice president seems to disparage Trump’s faith, even in jest, it bears noting.

The event was the annual spring dinner of the Gridiron Club, an exclusive group of inside-the-Beltway journalists, in a cavernous Washington, D.C., hotel ballroom.

The players: The aforementioned journalists. Local, state and federal elected officials. Administration officials. Members of President Biden’s administration. Pence, in the role of Republican speaker. (There was a Democratic speaker, too, but this is not his story.)

https://www.heraldnet.com/opinion/comment-pence-may-try-to-peal-evangelics-away-from-trump/

There aren't that many of that group anyhow.

[Thomas Hurt]

1. That presupposes that the evangelicals have a problem with someone who is a "pretend" xtian....

as opposed to Pence. I think Pence underestimates the hypocrisy of the evangelicals.

[old as dirt]

3. I might be inclined to say the age of hypocrisy is over.

There is no pretense any more.

They aren’t pretending to be Christian.

They’re merely pretending to pretend to be Christian, and winking while they do it, which seems like a different phenomena.

It’s not a pretense. It’s some sort of meta-pretense.

It like when everybody talks in unison about crowd sizes from day one.

It’s not even a lie.

It’s just practiced and coordinated theater, so they can watch the looks on our faces when they all manage to say it in unison with a straight face.

[TheRealNorth]

5. +1000

Evangelicals are probably his strongest supporters.

[temporary311]

7. Yep, they don't care about Jesus

they care about power. Jesus is just what they call the cudgel they swing trying to obtain it.

[elleng]

2. OK, let him try.

We'll watch!

[BlueIdaho]

4. Evangelicals are a dying breed

They will not be the group that decides elections.

[Beachnutt]

6. Mike Matthew 7:15 Pence

[tanyev]

8. LOL, good luck with that.

[Leith]

9. Trumpanzees are a cult of personality

and Pence doesn't have one.