Donald Trump is still soaring in the polls with his followers unwavering in the face of growing criminal charges and legal battles. A large part of that is due to evangelical voters who are stalwart in their support of the former and possibly future president, but while they say it’s over his results on things like Roe vs. Wade, it’s actually about a whole lot more. Veuer’s Tony Spitz has the details.
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00:00Donald Trump is still soaring in the polls, with his followers unwavering in the face
00:05of growing criminal charges and legal battles.
00:07A large part of that is due to evangelical voters, who are stalwart in their support
00:12of the former and possibly future president, especially after his Supreme Court appointees
00:17overturned Roe v. Wade in summer 2022.
00:20However, despite that being a landmark victory for anti-abortion groups around the nation,
00:25the move was largely unpopular, and recently Trump began to soften on the issue, even
00:30calling on other Republicans to tone down their pro-life messaging, as it's believed
00:34that is at least in part of what did the GOP in during the midterms.
00:38So where does that leave evangelicals, especially as his only other primary rival, Nikki Haley,
00:43has a history of putting forth bills in her own state proposing that life begins at conception,
00:47while political scientist at Eastern Illinois University and Baptist pastor Ryan Burge tells
00:52Business Insider in the end, religion takes a backseat to partisanship, explaining, abortion
00:58is the dinner party answer to the question, why do you support Trump?
01:01You don't want to say, I like Trump because he wants to kick all the illegals out.
01:05He adds that evangelical influence is waning in the US, and that Trump's Make America Great
01:10Again slogan resonated with that group, conjuring images of what Burge says is what evangelicals
01:16see as a better time for them, when white Christians ran every aspect of American society.