Trump flirting with 'doomsday scenario' in third bid for office: report
With the 2024 presidential election nine days away, former president Donald Trump may see his third bid for the Oval Office fall short because one of his most reliable group of voters are sending signals that they may stay home on election day.
According to a report from Politico's Adam Wren, evangelical voters are losing interest in the former president with some turned off by his latest campaign that has taken a turn for the vulgar as he reaches out to young men.
In his recent “Believers and Ballots” town hall in Georgia the former president hinted that he is not confident that evangelicals will come to his rescue this time when he complained, "Christians are not tremendous voters in terms of percentage."
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That Trump comment came in response to a question about a recent report from Christian pollster George Barna that projected 32 million evangelical voters may take a pass on this election.
As Wren put it, that would be a "doomsday scenario" for Trump who needs a win over Vice President Kamala Harris to not only return to the presidency but also to make a large swath of his legal problems go away.
According to the report, the former president is attempting to put together a "Frankenstein coalition" where evangelicals will find common ground with young men steeped in their own raucous –– and less than Christian – culture.
That is a tall task explained John Shelton, policy director for Advancing American Freedom.
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“While these latter, libertarian and libertine voters are reliably anti-progressive and align closely with Donald Trump’s policies in 2024, they’re a far cry from the religious right of yesteryear,” he explained. “It remains to be seen whether this Frankenstein coalition will usher Trump into the White House or simply turn off more traditional Republican voters than it pulls in.”
Michael Wear of the Center for Christianity and Public Life agreed, and added, "Trump needs to win at least 78 percent of white evangelicals or his path to victory becomes quite narrow. This strategy of trying to align those attracted by his vulgar appeals with down-home, bless your heart evangelicals, the risk is that he turns off more than he can afford to turn off.”
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