Evangelical Support of Trump

“…’most conservative evangelicals gave up on the politics of character in 2016’ and still consider their relationship to Trump as a pragmatic bargain.” - CToday

“So many people say policy over personality, but it’s, I personally did not vote for Trump because I couldn’t get past the personality….I have three sons and I want them to have a president that they can admire and look up to and want to be like.” - NBC News

“No matter what is revealed about Donald Trump’s character and attitude toward women, large numbers in the evangelical community seem to have no king but him.” - Cal Thomas

“The Oklahoma-based evangelical pastor and businessman Jackson Lahmeyer leads the fledgling Pastors for Trump organization. Lahmeyer told the Guardian it boasts over 7,000 pastors as members” - The Guardian

“Ahead of the 2016 primaries, Iowa evangelicals would not support Donald Trump in his run for president due to issues they had with his character….As the former president campaigns for 2024, many in this powerful GOP base have flipped their 2016 views.” - IPR

“DeSantis’ net favorability among white evangelicals is +36, placing him at a slightly higher net favorability than Trump. Haley’s net favorability among this group is +20. White evangelicals are more than twice as likely to say that they have not heard of Haley (42%) than they are to say the same of DeSantis (18%).” - PRRI

“I have no idea if or when we will see something no generation of Americans has ever witnessed: a mug shot of a former president of the United States. What I do know is that the entire country is waiting with a sense of unease about just that possibility and about what happens next.” - Russell Moore

“Franklin Graham urges prayers ahead of possible Trump indictment: ‘Politically motivated’ ” - CPost

“ ‘There’s great disloyalty in the world of politics, and that’s a sign of disloyalty,’ Trump said.” - RNS

“There’s a lot more out there on this but the main question is: Where are these folks going to go? To Mike Pence? Tom DeSantis? Someone else?” - GetReligion