Most evangelical Christians continue to support President Donald Trump, despite allegations of sexual misconduct and extramarital affairs, and will make a big push ahead of the midterm elections to help keep Republicans in the majority in Congress by raising money, helping voters register, and persuading conservatives to avoid complacency, The New York Times reports.
Concerned Women for America's fundraising plans to have get-out-the-vote organizers in 10 states, the Faith and Freedom Coalition, an organization that informs and educates faith-based voters to go to the polls in 2018, plans to spend four times the amount it spent in the 2014 midterms, the Family Research Council has asked congregants to help with voter registration drives and voter education.
"I don't know of anyone who has worked the evangelical community more effectively than Donald Trump," Ralph Reed, the chairman of the Faith and Freedom Coalition, told the Times.
White evangelical support for Trump remains high, according to a recent survey by the Public Religion Research Institute, with 75 percent holding a favorable view of the president.
"Evangelicals still believe in the commandment, 'Thou shalt not have sex with a porn star.' . . . However, whether the president violated that commandment or not is totally irrelevant for our support of him," Robert Jeffress, the pastor of a Dallas megachurch, told Fox News last month, according to The Atlantic. "Evangelicals knew they weren't voting for an altar boy when they voted for Donald Trump."
Trump has delivered more on policy "than any other president in my lifetime," Tony Perkins, the president of Research Family Council, told Politico in late January.
He selected Mike Pence, a devout Christian and social conservative, as his vice president, appointed pro-life judge Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court, started the process of moving the American Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, personally supported the March for Life, and moved against transgender protections.
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