Disgraced former Trump lawyer fears right-wing Christians are abandoning MAGA
Former Donald Trump attorney Jenna Ellis sounded the alarm to Politico that she's afraid that conservative Christians are walking out on getting the former president re-elected.
Ellis, a former traffic court prosecutor in Weld, Colorado, who jumped into national prominence when she became a senior legal adviser to Trump, pleaded guilty to criminal charges in Georgia in the scheme to overturn the 2020 election, which she had claimed was a mission from God. After being thrown under the bus by the former president and attacked by his supporters for cutting a deal in that case, she supported Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis for president in the 2024 primaries.
She still wants Republicans to defeat Vice President Kamala Harris — but, she told Politico, she worries there's a big obstacle to that.
"While Trump has added new voters to his base and is performing well in traditionally Democratic demographics like Black men, his campaign cannot discount voters in swing states who may vote down ticket but leave the top blank," said Ellis. "In 2016 he won in part because judicial appointments was a key issue, so (in addition to the border and the economy) he should draw attention to how extreme a Harris administration’s federal nominees would be."
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Additionally, she said, Harris' campaign, by focusing on "vibes and joy" and avoiding hot-button policy positions, has prevented religious voters from developing an existential fear of her campaign — the upshot of which is that she worries about "Christians and conservatives abstaining in key states and districts."
Trump has long relied on the white evangelical vote as the backbone of his campaign — although there has been an undercurrent of evangelicals for years who opposed the former president and are making their voices heard in this election.
The Latter-Day Saints, another conservative Christian bloc, has also been souring on Trump, and the Harris campaign has made a big play to try to win their votes, as they hold substantial populations in the Western battleground states of Arizona and Nevada.