Republican presidential candidate and former president Donald Trump last month said God saved his life after an assassination attempt and claimed he could win California if Jesus was a “vote counter.” Interview In a segment of his TV show “Dr. Phil Primetime” posted to YouTube on Tuesday, McGraw began his conversation by referring to the July 13 assassination attempt on Trump, in which a bullet grazed his ear while he was speaking at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
“Frankly, the experts say you shouldn't be here right now,” and “the experts say a fatal shot is almost certain, and yet here you are sitting here,” McGraw told Trump, before asking him if he had asked himself, “Why am I here? Why am I here?”
“It's about the turn,” Trump responded. “I wouldn't be here with you today unless it was a perfect 90-degree turn. And I had to see something on the right.”
According to Christian PostHe also acknowledged the “huge crowd” that had gathered at the event, noting that “they were up front” and that “I didn't have to look to the right.” At the time, Trump had been using what he called his “favorite graph” documenting illegal immigration statistics at the beginning of his speeches, but previously he had always referenced it at the end of his speeches, and the graph was placed on the left instead of the right.
When McGraw asked Trump how he survived, he responded, “There must have been some force greater than I can think of,” reflecting on the unlikelihood of an assassination attempt on his life. [of] God loves our country and knows we will get it back, and He wants to get it back.”
“It's all down to God,” he added. “How can you call it luck when it's a one in 20 million chance?”
McGraw also asked Trump whether he believed there was “more to do, that it's not done, that he was spared for a reason,” to which Trump replied, “I think God believes that.”
after that, Interview“I can't lose California,” Trump said after speaking to a packed audience, but lamented that “if you're Republican, you're automatically going to lose.”
Reacting to losing the state by 5 million votes in the 2020 election, Trump claimed, “If Jesus came down and was a vote-taker, I guarantee you I would win California,” clarifying that he meant he could win the state “if we had honest vote-taker, really honest vote-taker.”
In the 2020 election, in California, a state with a strong Democratic Party margin He won by about 5 million votes and 29 percentage points. margin He won by more than 4 million votes and more than 30 percentage points.
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