'This is going to save life,' the prominent conservative Christian leader said.
Trump, who is widely supported within the evangelical Christian community, has urged Americans to get vaccinated as well.back in March."And I would recommend it to a lot of people that don't want to get it and a lot of those people voted for me, frankly." The former president said it was a"great vaccine," describing the vaccines as"safe" and"something that works.
Polling conducted by Morning Consult earlier this month showed that nearly 70 percent of Americans said they are already vaccinated or plan to get vaccinated. An additional 11 percent said they were"uncertain" if they'd get the jab while 20 percent said they were"unwilling" to receive the shot. Polling by Pew Research from earlier this year showed that 45 percent of white evangelical Christians said they probably would not or definitely would not get the vaccine.
Exit polls from the 2016 and 2020 election showed that about eight in 10 white evangelicals cast their ballots for Trump. Recent polls have also shown that white evangelicals are more likely to give credence to baseless conspiracy theories,or debunked claims that the 2020 election was"rigged." Some prominent evangelical pastors have also spread lies and misinformation about COVID-19 and the vaccines.
"I don't care what Pfizer—I don't care what any of the four groups do out there. Look, if you think... for one minute that those political elites actually got that vaccination, you are smoking meth in your mama's basement," Pastor Greg Locke, head of the Baptist Global Vision Bible Church in Tennessee,
during a May sermon."Bunch of fake liars is what they are. They didn't shoot nothing in their arm but a bunch of sugar water," he said.
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