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White evangelicals prioritized issues like abortion restrictions and conservative judicial appointments over concerns about personal character
Franklin Graham and like-minded evangelical leaders endorsed Donald Trump through high‑visibility public prayers, appearances at rallies and the Republican National Convention, and repeated public pra...
absorbed ’s central injunctions — relentless positive visualization, refusal to entertain “failure thoughts,” and faith in self as moral and practical authority — and those lessons became a through-li...
Donald Trump has repeatedly used religious language to describe his mission and survival, saying he was “chosen” or “saved by God” and sharing material that frames him as divinely anointed . No reputa...
Documented instances exist of for‑hire crowd companies supplying actors to political events, with the most thoroughly reported example being –based , which has been linked to paid speakers and demonst...
A broad cohort of high-profile evangelical leaders publicly endorsed or allied with beginning in 2016 — names frequently cited include , , , , , , , , , , and others who served on his faith advisory b...
were a decisive and concentrated pillar of ’s coalition in 2020, supplying roughly one-quarter of the electorate and giving him overwhelming support that helped lock down key states and cultural issue...
moved from pragmatic, often enthusiastic public endorsements of in toward a more fractured and conditional posture by 2024: a vocal core remained loyal and influential, while a distinct and growing “N...
White evangelical Protestants today are more uniformly and intensely aligned with Donald Trump than with most recent Republican presidents: surveys show unusually high levels of trust in his statement...
Donald Trump’s presidency accelerated an already intimate but uneasy fusion between the Christian right and the Republican Party by delivering policy wins that energized conservative Christians while ...
has been a central driver in media portrayals of as divinely anointed, with a subset of televangelists, charismatic “prophets,” and conservative amplifying messianic language that then diffuses into b...
Evangelical leaders’ endorsements of Donald Trump were driven less by his personal holiness than by a slate of policy promises and political outcomes they prioritized: reshaping the judiciary, restric...
A notably large cohort of evangelical and other Christian leaders publicly endorsed in —groups ranging from “” to multi‑faith coalitions organized by and —claiming Biden’s platform better aligned with...
carried overwhelmingly in 2020, winning every county in the state, but found his strongest pockets of support in and regions — notably Bristol and Plymouth counties — and showed relatively higher vote...