any kinds of violence that they have to commit in their name. what is so stunning about that is that this week, i think last saturday, trump releases an ad called god made trump. it is literally chapter and verse placing trump as a disciple of god, god s chosen messenger, warrior, whatever you want to call it. he s playing directly into that. this is language that bannon has used, roger stone has used. this is a core vision or core idea that they have really used to mobilize and keep the attention of his flock. in the meantime, what s a good republican supposed to do? michelle, that s your colleague jamelle bouie, new york times here. but he writes, this is his piece on the net effect of trump on the republican party. they ve repressed growth of a meaningful anti trump faction within the jeep opp. it s hard under normal circumstances to take a stand against the leader of your political party and now trump can try, nominee or, not to use the fervor of his followers to tilt the pla
trump there. and i want him back in again. reporter: when we first met her last fall at the fort des moines church of christ, trump was one of his options. . there is a loyalty with trump, and people that follow him. reporter: now he has narrowed his choice to desantis or vivek ramaswamy. he said he and other evangelicals were offended by a recent video trump shared on social media suggesting he was the messiah. so god made trump. it was offensive to us, because we don t see him, trump as a messianic figure. reporter: he has met most of all of the republican candidates. he doesn t tell members of his congregation to vote, but implores them to make faith part of their vote. as a patz store, it is my goal to guide them and remind them to let them know god is with you, even in the voting booth. how important are evangelicals in this state? i mean, very important. if donald trump is really going have a slingshot to the nomination, he is going to need the folsom support from
hampshire. but if this isn t his alamo and man chest cory be. remember, trump s got some chains he can pull here. at some point ramaswamy is going to drop and probably go to trump. if desantis were to drop, you would assume he heads towards trump. tim scott is laying around out there somewhere who hasn t endorsed anybody yet. for all of the momentum hailly is trying to get into new hampshire, trump is not without reinforcements, a and the campaign is systematically rolling them out. up next, the evangelical vote. trump working overtime to try to keep the evangelicals. we ll look at whether or not that is paying off. god puts people over us in office, and i believe god put donald trump there. and israel s war in gaza sure to be a major topic in tonight s debate. it comes as we re getting new footage first on outfront on the hamas tunnel network in khan younis where some of the hamas
which is white and culturally identifying as christian. pew research has shown between 2016 and 2020, you had a number of white americans who began identifying as evangelical who were supporters of trump. so the iowa voter you re talking about who was organized by organized religion and its political supporters, those aren t the same people that trump is courting. and quite frankly, they may be the people that ron desantis is sort of missing in his pursuit of the old-school endorsements from the kind of religious right as we knew it out of the 80s. also, when you go on social media and you put an ad out like trump did, you hear the patz store say that offended him. maybe not for him, and maybe not for anyone jeff is speaking to in that piece. maybe some of what they said shows a little why that may resonate. let me show again. god puts people over us in office.
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