The conservative Christian coalition that helped usher President Trump into power in 2016 is planning its largest midterm election mobilization ever, with volunteers fanning out from the church pews to the streets to register voters, raise money and persuade conservatives that they cannot afford to be complacent this year. … […] Read more »
Voters’ Motives Shift, and Allegiances Harden
… In meetings since the first of this year with farmers and others in agribusiness in California, central Illinois, Kansas, Minnesota, Nebraska, and North Dakota, I came out convinced that in small-town and rural America, despite their serious concerns about some of Trump’s specific policies and statements on immigration (availability […] Read more »
Evangelicals and Trump
Highly religious Americans are significantly more likely than others to identify as Republicans. This is a robust, continuous facet of American society. … Some of the discussion in contemporary public discourse seems to assume that evangelicals start with a blank slate when they look at the president, making their approval […] Read more »
As Stormy Daniels tells her story, six conservative Americans debate whether Trump is a role model
Roughly 22 million Americans turned on “60 Minutes” on Sunday night to hear adult-film star Stormy Daniels say that she once spanked President Trump with a magazine that had his face on the cover and then had unprotected sex with him. For many, the interview was the latest in a […] Read more »
Evangelicals meet partisanship
Twenty years ago, evangelical leaders could hardly have been more appalled. Arguing that character counts, Rev. Franklin Graham asserted that if a president “will lie to, or mislead, his wife … what will prevent him from doing the same to the American public?” The late Billy Graham’s son was referring […] Read more »
Despite porn stars and Playboy models, white evangelicals aren’t rejecting Trump. This is why.
A porn actress says she had sex with Donald Trump, only a few months after his wife gave birth to a son. A former Playboy model says she had an affair with him, too. And yet according to a Pew Research Center poll conducted March 7-14, both white mainline and […] Read more »