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Voters who identify as evangelicals overlook Trump’s dubious moral character. I made the decision to inquire as to
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Numerous things make Donald Trump famous, including bankrupt casinos, accusations of infidelity, boasting about and realizing sexual assault, giving hush money to a porn star, and winning and losing presidential elections.

That isn’t what you hear in Sunday church sermons, unless they are about the path to hell.

However, Trump is also well-known for his extraordinarily robust and enduring support among voters who identify as white evangelical Christians.

How does Trump persuade voters who claim to take their faith into account when casting their ballots to take one look at him and decide that he’s the man for them?

I inquired with a few knowledgeable people. The general consensus is that if Trump gives evangelicals the impression that he has their backs, they don’t need him to be a good person or even a person of faith.

Trump adopts the persona that evangelical supporters have assigned to him.
Trump will speak at the National Religious Broadcasters Association’s International Christian Media Convention in Nashville on Thursday, according to Troy Miller, the organization’s president.

From my conversations and interactions with everyone I meet, including lifelong Democrats in my own family, I can attest to Trump’s appeal. People think he gets them,” Miller said to me. “They feel like he gets them, even though some of his life stuff doesn’t fit into their personal lifestyle or morality.”

Trump gives that a lot of weight. While campaigning in Iowa ahead of the state’s caucuses last month, he uploaded an oddly self-aggrandizing video to his social media platform, portraying himself as a messianic figure.

The narration of the video began, “And on June 14, 1946, God said, ‘I need a caretaker.'” He was looking down on his imagined paradise. Thus, God sent us Donald.

Such egotistical and proud displays are frowned upon in the Bible. Additionally, some Iowa evangelical pastors were upset by the video.

“Nothing was done”: Trump is a coward. At the NRA gun show, he acknowledged this.

Nevertheless, with the backing of 53% of voters who identified as evangelicals, Trump won handily there.

Voters’ lack of accountability benefits Trump’s cause because he doesn’t have to worry about being held accountable by his fervent evangelical supporters. That’s not what they’ve indicated since he became the front-runner for the Republican nomination in 2016.

Preceding South Carolina’s Republican presidential primary, Brad Atkins, a Baptist preacher at a church with over 3,000 members in Spartanburg County, was among the over 100 religious leaders who gave their endorsement to Trump last week.

A veteran of Republican presidential politics, Atkins cited Trump’s establishment of the White House Faith and Opportunity Initiative as one of the reasons for his endorsement. Another was to appoint justices to the Supreme Court who reversed a constitutional protection for abortion.

On June 24, former President Donald Trump gave a speech in Washington, DC, at the Faith & Freedom Coalition.
On June 24, former president Donald Trump gives a speech in Washington, DC, at the Faith & Freedom Coalition.
Atkins stated, “He always made faith something he was a stalwart for, regardless of how overt he was with his faith.”

Following his exit from office, a jury comprised of his peers concluded in a civil suit that Trump had molested writer E. Jean Carroll sexually. Another jury granted Carroll $83 million in damages for Trump’s attempts to discredit her after learning of the assault.

I had to make the inquiry. None of that seemed to affect Atkins in the slightest.

He declared, “I believe that everyone has a past that influences their present.” “I think everyone has a lot of regrets from the past that they would prefer not to discuss.”

Does Trump have a contract with evangelical voters?
That is, in a sense, an outright acceptance of the Christian belief that everyone is a sinner. On the other hand, given that Trump never expresses remorse for anything he does to others, it’s a huge pass for one guy.

However, it is reliable. At the height of the 2016 Republican primary, Atkins told The Financial Times that while Trump’s “indiscretions are much more visible” than those of the other candidates, he was certain that they had also made mistakes in the past.

Reforming borders in an election year? Resolving the border crisis benefits Biden and hurts Trump. That’s the issue.

Messiah College history professor John Fea characterizes it as “a contractual relationship” between Trump and his evangelical backers.

“He fulfills their needs. Fea, who wrote an essay for the 2020 book “The Spiritual Danger of Donald Trump: 30 Evangelicals on Justice, Truth, and Moral Integrity,” claimed that people just put up with him.

Things weren’t always like that.

And what about Biden’s Catholic background?
Of course, not all evangelicals back Trump. Fea added that some of them supported Joe Biden in 2020 due to his track record as a bipartisan, moderate Democrat.

“I think Biden disappointed those voters by pushing to the left on social issues,” Fea stated.

Now that Biden is leading the Democratic field, they are using the repeal of abortion rights as a rallying cry for their supporters to vote in November, with Trump as their primary target.

“I don’t think Trump cares one bit about abortion, whether its pro-choice or pro-life,” Fea stated. “It’s a political wedge issue that he can use to seek power.”

Furthermore, concerns regarding Trump’s morality are now moot.

“The politics of character in American evangelicalism are over,” Fea stated. “It’s all policy-driven.”

Former religious opponents of Trump have modified their opinions
When Trump was the Republican nominee eight years ago, prominent evangelicals participated in a debate hosted by the NRB to discuss whether or not they should endorse him for president.

In that 2016 debate, conservative pundit and broadcaster Erick Erickson listed Trump’s infidelity, as well as his numerous business ventures that defrauded supporters and left employees unpaid, as reasons why evangelicals should reject him.

In addition, Trump claimed on the campaign trail that year that he had never asked God for forgiveness, according to Erickson. That was deemed by Erickson as a failure of “Christianity 101.”

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In that particular year, evangelical support for Trump overshadowed Erickson’s scathing critique. In 2019, the punditry took a different tack and supported Trump’s campaign for a second term.

According to the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago’s AP Votecast, a poll of American voters conducted for media partners such as the USA TODAY Network found that 8 out of 10 white evangelical Christian voters supported Trump in 2020, a reaffirmation of their support for him from 4 years prior.