Trump promises a revival of Christian power in speech to National Religious Broadcasters

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

80% : Hewitt called Trump the "best interview in America.
73% : Trump appealed to the religious audience with Bible verses and promises of world peace.
67% : Kelley Paine from Rockport, Texas, who wore a "Make America Pray Again," baseball cap, said Trump had been a great president and could be one again.
61% : Trump's arrival at the Opryland resort was delayed for more than an hour, and a Southern Gospel group, Ernie Hass & Signature Sound, was pressed into an impromptu concert of gospel songs, at one point leading the crowd in an a cappella rendition of "God Bless America."Just as attendees had begun to drift out of the room, Trump arrived and was greeted with a standing ovation.
55% : Hewitt took aim at the term Christian nationalism, a movement that promotes the belief that the United States should be run by and for the benefit of Christians.
53% : Speaking to a packed-out ballroom of radio and television preachers and other Christian communicators, Trump described himself as a friend and fellow believer, and someone ready to restore God to his rightful place in America culture.
52% : "I will be a peacemaker and I will be the only president who can say -- and I say this with great conviction -- I will prevent World War III."Though he admitted that he wasn't a very good Christian and didn't know much about the Bible, Trump told broadcasters that he shared their faith and would always stand up for God -- lines which brought thunderous applause.
49% : "The Bible says blessed are the peacemakers," said Trump, quoting from Jesus' Sermon on the Mount.
46% : While a representative of Pray.com touted the slogan on Payne's hat, on the whole the NRB gathering was less tricked out in MAGA gear than can be found at a Trump campaign event, and the coarser messages that have popped up among Trump supporters in recent years were not in evidence.
45% : Some of those convicts were heard in a recorded rendition of the Star Spangled Banner by the so-called J6 Prison Choir as Trump was being introduced.
44% : Analia Anderson, who said she has sold t-shirts at MAGA-themed "Reawaken America" events, is a fan of President Trump, but she said some rhetoric at those events went too far.
42% : "If I get in, you're going to be using that power at a level that you've never used before," Trump told the annual gathering of National Religious Broadcasters at Nashville's Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center.
41% : Conservative talk show host Hugh Hewitt and Kevin Roberts, president of the Heritage Foundation, also spoke before Trump took the stage, praising the former president and warning that the country and conservatives face grave perils from their political foes.
32% : "Trump made similar comments, saying the greatest threat to the U.S. came from inside the country, not from external enemies.
19% : In a speech that lasted more than an hour, Trump portrayed evangelical Christians as a persecuted group under President Joe Biden's administration, a status he told them he shared in his 2020 election loss, which he said had been "rigged.
17% : "The establishment does not hate Donald Trump because he's a threat to America.

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