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Trump's questionable morality gets a pass from evangelical voters. I decided to ask why. [View all]
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2024/02/18/evangelicals-support-trump-2024-appeal-voters/72614580007/Trump's questionable morality gets a pass from evangelical voters. I decided to ask why.
How does Donald Trump persuade voters who say they consider their faith when casting ballots to look his way and say, yeah, that's my kind of guy?
Chris Brennan
USA TODAY
Donald Trump is known for many things: bankrupt casinos, claims of adultery, bragging about sexual assault, actual sexual assault, paying hush money to a porn star, and then winning and losing the presidency.
It’s not the stuff of Sunday church sermons, unless the topic is the road to hell.
But there is one more thing Trump is known for: remarkably strong and lasting support among white evangelical Christian voters.
How does he do that?
How does Trump persuade voters who say they consider their faith when casting ballots to look his way and say, yeah, that’s my kind of guy?
I asked some people who would know. The consensus: Many evangelicals don’t need Trump to be a person of faith – or even a good person – if they feel like he has their backs.
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TLDR: Because they are vile despicable hypocrites
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