documentary by john ward. also with us, republican congressman sean duffy of wisconsin. congressman duffy is a trump supporter and member of trump s catholic advisory group. good to have you both onboard this morning. sean, let s begin with you. a lot of people surprised that donald trump picked up as much as the evangelical vote in the primary as he did, why did he? evangelicals have tried other options and it hasn t worked and tried donald trump. in the primary they had jeb and kasich, they had rubio. they had walker. they had a lot of different choices. great choices. they saw that as the same package that has been offered to them in prior elections that didn t really work for them. they were willing to take a
out across the country that people are embarrassed to admit publicly that they re going to support donald trump? not in this group. i certainly think that s potentially a phenomenon with polling. i get the sense that some of the traditional mainstream republicans may be feeling not comfortable talking about that in public but will be with him at the end. i think some of his rise in the polls in late summer was because of that. this group is different. last group to make up their mind. difference in four or five states in 2012 were from folks just like this. and they see bill clinton adding to the campaign. they see him as a plus. they re not 100% convinced that she can be trusted at all in every aspect of becoming president, of being president, but they think having president
the republican primaries, we would not have contemplated making this endorsement. that s a remarkable statement saying there were a lot of other candidates out there that we would have gladly, you know, stayed out of the race for. but trump is not a man of ideas. he s a demagogue. a sexist. a no nothing and a liar. he is spectacularly unfit for office and voters should act in defense of american democracy and elect his opponent. it s amazing how the press has galvanized. carried him up until this point. they haven t carried him up to this point. hold on a second. we ve been hearing that forever that the press has carried donald trump. you know what you haven t seen this year because it would undermine that argument. what you see every year.
sometimes you can tell the fact, give the facts, and we need to talk to you about this. you can do it dispassionately. these are facts. this is what donald trump said. if think they re offensive, that great. my job is to put the facts down and not tweet all day about he s a his business history and comments of women and it doesn t have to be gilded with outrage. there is plenty to write for news and investigations and many outlets are doing it i think. i would ask donny to name the positive story about donald trump you can remember in the last six months? just what s the one story? give me a positive story about hillary clinton? pick up the paper today.
different path with bombastic and different donald trump. bombastic but also vulgar on the campaign trail. has a history of statements that would have destroyed any other republican candidate. why do they give donald trump a free pass they would give no other candidate? first of all, in the primary a lot of evangelicals were not with him as sean alluded to. but i think a lot of it does now come down to they don t feel like they have any options. for an older generation of evangelicals there s a large degree of fear about hillary clinton presidency. sean mentioned some of those issues. abortion and religious liberty. i think the point of what i ve been reporting about is this is a minority of evangelicals. i m not trying to exaggerate numbers here. i think among younger folks you have a sense that they don t feel as if america is the kingdom of god. don t believe in kings. believe in the kingdom. so they have a sense that