Trump pitches faith leaders in North Carolina

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : "Trump speaks about love and coming together and togetherness and family," Burton-Cline, the Pagan priestess, said.Terry Boyles, the father of a Baptist preacher, agreed.
59% : "We pray, if it be your will, that Trump will win this election," he said.
55% : Lee Greenwood, who sells custom Bibles with Trump, introduced him.
55% : "Well, true," he said.More important than moral purity to these voters, it seems, is foreordination, and to them, Trump has been chosen.
44% : Instead of calling for a nationwide abortion legislation, Trump now supports the Court's directive to allow each state to decide.
40% : In a shift from the religious right's embrace of Trump in 2016, when many justified supporting Trump because of his policies and in spite of his character, it now seems the inverse is true: even if some disagree with Trump on issues like abortion, they support his persona.
40% : When I mentioned that Trump had called Harris a "(expletive) vice president" the night before, Boyles shrugged his shoulders.
39% : Now, two weeks away from his third Election Day, Trump and Republicans find themselves in difficult political territory after the Supreme Court's Dobbs v. Jackson decision in 2022.
39% : Peter Navarro, the former Trump administration official who was imprisoned for refusing to comply with Congress' investigation of January 6, quoted the Sermon on the Mount, saying Trump was "blessed" for being "persecuted for righteousness' sake.""There's a spiritual element that's at work here," Franklin Graham, the evangelist, said.
28% : On Monday, speaking to a group of faith leaders, Trump completely sidestepped the issue during his 57-minute speech.
28% : Trump recounted the attempted assassination in July, saying his faith "took on new meaning" that day.
23% : In a presidential campaign against Vice President Kamala Harris, who is staunchly pro-abortion rights, Trump is pivoting to issues less politically difficult for Republicans.
17% : Carson said the Left has tried "everything" to stop Trump, then paraphrased the Old Testament: "If God be for you, who can be against you?"
11% : Instead of viewing Trump as a strong leader with flawed character, as many conservative faith leaders once did, attendees at Monday's event painted Trump as a God-fearing man sent from heaven to save the country.
4% : Carson -- who, while running against Trump for the 2016 Republican nomination, questioned the sincerity of Trump's faith -- defended Trump during his speech Monday.

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