Bill Cotterell: Give these guys a break

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : If candidates or officeholders seek political gain by saying something hateful -- like George Wallace promising "segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever" when he became governor of Alabama -- it ought to stay with them.
45% : But if you like him, Trump was just saying that he'll win the culture wars, so Christians can stay home on future election days.
41% : That kind of guy talk is OK for yukking it up on Tucker Carlson's show, but it doesn't help with the suburban women Trump needs so badly this year.
32% : Trump, for instance, recently told a Christian audience if they vote for him "you won't have to do it anymore.
27% : Trump is denying any knowledge of Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation plan for turning America into something imagined by a beer-swilling frat boy who's just discovered Ayn Rand.
4% : As Democrats seek to make Republican vice-presidential candidate JD Vance seem "weird," we're hearing a lot about childless "cat ladies" and some "America's Hitler" remark he made about Donald Trump, long before he knew how easily Trump can kill a Republican's career.

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