Ex-president turning to Christian nationalists for support as Kamala Harris’s potential nomination poses hard challenge
Donald Trump, now facing a tougher challenge in the US election after Joe Biden stepped down in favor of Kamala Harris, is increasingly leaning into religious extremism aimed at energizing a key section of his support base: socially conservative Christians.
Since 2016, Trump has become an unlikely hero for Christian nationalists – a loose grouping of evangelical Christians who believe the US was founded as a Christian nation, and want to seecome to believe “Christians, get out and vote, just this time. You won’t have to do it anymore. Four more years, you know what, it will be fixed, it will be fine, you won’t have to vote anymore, my beautiful Christians,” Trump said in his speech, where he also repeated a promise to form “a new federal task force on fighting anti-Christian bias”, which would investigate “harassment and persecution against Christians in America”.
The real goal with Trump’s appeal to this crowd is about more than just winning individual votes, Taylor said. Trump is appealing to a specific type of Christian, Rev Paul Brandeis Raushenbush, president and CEO of Interfaith Alliance, said in a statement. Raushenbush said Trump is trying to reinforce his popularity with the religious right, who do not represent every person of faith.
The leaning in has continued since Trump made his incendiary speech at the Believers’ Summit. Jake Schneider, a spokesman for the Republican National Committee, sent an email out on Tuesday which falsely accused Harris of supporting “taxpayer-funded abortion-on-demand without limits until birth”, which was designed to appeal to the Christian base.
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