throwing eye way and by the way, members of trump family went out on the campaign trail and said, jesus teachings are too left wing, jesus teachings don t relate anymore, aren t relevant anymore. turning the cheek, not relevant anymore. for evangelicals watching, how far afield it s come, you read the sermon on the mount and it s about forgiving. turning the other cheek, blessed are the meek, blessed are the merciful, blessed are the peacemakers, over and over again, you see all of these things that donald trump is not and that he s taken former
political cult is the enemy. yeah. right, and donald trump is the big protector and if they get donald trump they ll get you as well, you know in terms of evangelical christians and this notion if you don t support joe biden you re a tool of satan it s extraordinary how many of his fellow christians actually believe some of the teachings of the jesus christ, they say that s woke, that s too left wing, there s been an inversion of what christianity is. to be an identity system. purity of politics has trumped how do you explain you have a cult that includes so many church-going evangelicals look at trump and see his lies
followers of jesus teachings to now say, on national tv, those teachings aren t relevant anymore, because we have a reality talk show host who became president for four years. and we re going to follow him again. so there you go. we ll continue this conversation but right now, we re following severe weather in southern california, where a tropical storm hilary is pummelling the los angeles area. this is the los angeles metro area, the storm made landfall yesterday in mexico and quickly moved north to the united states, hilary is already smashing records for rainfall across california with some parts of the state reporting nearly 3 inches of rain yesterday, let s bring in meteorologist bill karins, bill, good to see you, but terrible circumstances, give us the latest. good morning, this storm did
15% more which is why he can say i m not doing the republican debate and then, again, this is the most surprising thing that this would ever happen in america, that this would ever happen in the republican party, 42% believe religious leaders compared to 71% who believe donald trump. that certainly sounds like a cult. we ve seen all the deep programming trying to parents tried to bring pastors in, people of faith in to reach their children, to reach family members in a cult and they just won t listen. well, they re not going to listen to religious leaders and they re not going to listen to people of faith or in the ministry of jesus christ who have committed their lives to studying the gospel.
they say you have to choose between jesus christ and this church, and donald trump, they ll pick donald trump and they do every day. yeah, despite all of the stories that we have had about his personal live. in 2016 with the access hollywood tape, when that came out what he said about women perhaps that would be the line that evangelical christians supporting him would come up against and they didn t. sort of the deal that donald trump did when he called in evangelical leaders into his campaign during the 2016 campaign and said, listen, you overlooked this and i ll give you exactly what you want and a kind of a pact that was made that felt benefited. this poll is a real belief, not a transactional bargain where they look the other way, this is actually we do believe that