Former President Trump told attendees at a Christian media convention on Thursday that it was “crazy” for Christians to vote for Democratic candidates, calling the 2024 election “radical leftists” targeting patriotic Christians. It was positioned as a wide-ranging battle.
“It’s crazy how a Christian can vote for a Democrat, a Christian, a believer, a believer. How can a Christian vote for a Democrat? It’s crazy,” Trump said. said in National Religious Broadcasters (NRB) International Christian Media Conference in Nashville.
Trump made the remarks while slamming his multiple indictments, calling himself a “radical leftist” who claims he is “targeting all of us” because of his “loyalty to our country” and “our creator.” ” as a victim of
The former president has sought to shore up the support of Christian conservatives, who were key to his 2016 electoral turnout, as he prepares to win this year’s Republican presidential nomination and face President Biden in November.
In recent polls, more Republicans say Trump is a religious person than any other Republican figure. The poll, conducted by HarrisX for the Deseret News, found that 64% of Republicans say Trump is a religious person.
This was higher than the 56% of Republicans who said they thought former Vice President Mike Pence, an evangelical Christian, was a religious person. President Trump soured his attitude towards Pence after the latter played a near-ceremonial role in formalizing the 2020 election results on January 6, 2021.
The former president said in a speech Thursday that Christians “cannot afford to sit idly by” as he fights political opponents, “whether you call them radical leftists, communists or fascists.”
“They have to come out and do what they have to do and win,” Trump said.
The Biden campaign recently said that President Trump’s second term will be “like The Handmaid’s Tale.” This follows a Politico report detailing how the former president’s allies plan to incorporate “Christian nationalist ideas” into his next term.
“This is something straight out of The Handmaid’s Tale: a national abortion ban, an attack on same-sex marriage, restrictions on contraception, all by Team Trump and those who appear to be the architects of his second-term policies. This is a frightening reality that is being openly discussed,” Biden campaign spokeswoman Lauren Hitt said Tuesday.
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