Religion & Politics

With the 2024 presidential election nine days away, former president Donald Trump may see his third bid for the Oval Office fall short because one of his most reliable group of voters are sending signals that they may stay home on election day.

According to a report from Politico's Adam Wren, evangelical voters are losing interest in the former president with some turned off by his latest campaign that has taken a turn for the vulgar as he reaches out to young men.

In his recent “Believers and Ballots” town hall in Georgia the former president hinted that he is not confident that evangelicals will come to his rescue this time when he complained, "Christians are not tremendous voters in terms of percentage."

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That Trump comment came in response to a question about a recent report from Christian pollster George Barna that projected 32 million evangelical voters may take a pass on this election.

As Wren put it, that would be a "doomsday scenario" for Trump who needs a win over Vice President Kamala Harris to not only return to the presidency but also to make a large swath of his legal problems go away.

According to the report, the former president is attempting to put together a "Frankenstein coalition" where evangelicals will find common ground with young men steeped in their own raucous – and less than Christian – culture.

That is a tall task explained John Shelton, policy director for Advancing American Freedom.

A "God Bless the USA" Bible promoted by former President Donald Trump sponsored a segment on Real America's Voice in which Democrats were called a "demonic death cult."

Network host Terrance Bates introduced the segment on Thursday.

During an appearance on MSNBC on Wednesday morning, Atlantic columnist Peter Wehner, who writes about politics from a conservative Christian perspective, hammered Donald Trump's evangelical supporters for tossing aside their principles to back his third presidential bid.

Asked by the "Morning Joe" co-hosts to talk about his most recent column, "This Election is Different," where he fretted about the declining "decency" of voters, the columnist took aim at Christians who have embraced Trump's MAGA ethos.

Wehner, a former speechwriter for three different Republican presidents, was asked by co-host Joe Scarborough, "They are voting for a man who said, 'I don't need god to forgive me.' So how do they say, I'm voting for my Christian values, I'm going to vote for a man who every day undermines everything that Jesus said and says that he doesn't need god's forgiveness?"

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"You know, it's a psychological trick that they're playing, they've justified it by turning this race into an existential crisis that the Democrats and progressives are against Americans," he explained.

"So Trump is the only thing that stands between them and catastrophe, but of course, it's the opposite thing," he elaborated. "And I do think what you're getting, the point you're making, Joe, is exactly right. It's been a catastrophic damage that's been done to the Christian witness, because this is a moral freak show."

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Former First Lady Melania Trump praised former President Donald Trump for letting her believe in abortion rights for women.

During a Sunday interview on Fox News, Melania Trump defended disagreeing with her husband when it came to reproductive rights.

Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz pushed back against Fox News host Shannon Bream after she distorted the abortion laws in his state.

During an interview on Fox News Sunday, Bream insisted Walz had made abortion "legal through all nine months" as governor of Minnesota.

Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) lashed out at George Soros by using a Bible passage for an antisemitic slur on the liberal billionaire.

"Lawmakers are investigating George Soros' unprecedented purchase of radio stations right before the presidential election," Fox News host Todd Piro told Burchett on Thursday. "Here's the deal — 200 Odyssey stations are involved. The Soros fund invested $400 million. The deal impacts 40 markets, reaching 165 million Americans."

RSBN host Christina Loren compared former President Donald Trump to Jesus Christ because she said both men were "transparent" and said what was on their minds.

Loren made the remark while covering a Trump rally in Saginaw, Michigan, on Thursday.

Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz advised Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) to mind his "own business" after the Republican vice presidential nominee made false claims about late-term abortions.

During Tuesday night's vice presidential debate, Walz said that banning abortion rights would have drastic consequences.

The crew of beaming, blond women former President Donald Trump frequently praises as "so wealthy and beautiful" belongs to a christian "cult" that former members say beat children and kidnapped, according to new reporting.

Trump's frequent call-outs to his “North Carolina Girls” at campaign rallies are directed at members of the Word of Faith Fellowship, a North Carolina-based charismatic christian group described in an investigative book as one of the nation's "most dangerous cults," the New York Times reported Monday.