Trump to evangelicals: Pray for people to vote for me

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump pandered to and hooked evangelicals on Tuesday as he met with almost 1,000 spiritual leaders in NY, asserting that he is a “tremendous believer” that is “on your side”.

Following the event, at 3:30 p.m. EDT, organizers and conveners will hold a press conference in the Wilder Room at the Marriott Marquis Hotel to summarize the scope, substance and takeaways of the more than 1,000 leaders. “Some of the people were saying, “Let’s pray for our leaders, ‘” Trump said. People readjust and they look at the candidates”, he said.

Falwell introduced Trump today at a religious leader summit in New York City.

After Trump was criticized for recommending his pro-abortion sister Marianne Trump to the Supreme Court, in May he released a list of 11 people he would recommend to the High Court, including pro-life judges William H. Pryor, Jr. of the 11th U.S. Court of Appeals, Diane Sykes of the Seventh U.S. Court of Appeals and Raymond Gruender of the Eighth U.S. Court of Appeals. “Well, you can pray for your leaders, and I agree with that”. And this wasn’t just us, this was everybody who submitted questions. “I tell them I have no faith in the Republican Party, I have no faith in the Democratic Party – my only hope for this country is God”.

“In statewide elections after 2009, evangelicals have made up around a quarter of the electorate”, he said, “Virginia went with Obama, and a Republican hasn’t won statewide office since”. Religious leaders in America today, Trump said, “are petrified”.

Donald Trump said at the meeting: “Christianity, I owe so much to it in so many ways, through life, through having incredible children, through so many other things. It was about being able to practice our beliefs in the public square”, said Blackwell.

He’ll lead a section of the Q&A focused on legal issues, religious liberties and judicial selection. This wasn’t even about making him a stone-ribbed conservative.

Perhaps no evangelical leader has been more outspoken in opposition to Trump than Russell Moore, president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission.

Shackelford. who asked Trump some of the questions during the meeting, backed Texas Sen.

I’m so sorry everyone could not be there to hear his words.

Sitting in the fourth row from the podium during this historic exchange was TRUNEWS host Rick Wiles, who was noticeably moved by the event, commenting following the meeting “frankly, I’m very impressed by him as a person, as a man”. And as Sarah Posner has noted, many evangelicals, particularly adherents of the “prosperity gospel”, which preaches that God wants you to be rich, ended up attracted to the least observant and most personally morally repugnant candidate in the race, because hey, he has his own plane and hates Muslims.

With that in mind, Donald Trump is set to appear at a closed-door meeting with a large Christian group this week and the media is now back to saying he is losing them and needs to shore up their support.

Marjorie Danenfelser, president of the Susan B. Anthony List and one of the sponsors of the event, said, “He was relaxed, comfortable in the conversation, projected as one of us”.

Scarborough explained that they believe there is a holy war between Islam and Christianity that must be fought and Trump is the man to do it. “I think after that, Planned Parenthood is a footnote”, he said. Pastors have something to say. “So we are excited about that particular piece”, Gonzales said.

My Faith Votes and United in objective are organizing the “Conversation About America’s Future”.