no better example of that and this week s conservative political action conference, cpac, once a platform for leading conservative thinkers, now a extremism. cpac attendees are doubling down on trumpism ahead of the 2024 race for president. this afternoon, trump got to the cpac florida governor ron desantis trailing with just 20% of the vote. results fueled by cpac s growing devotion to the former president. a columnist for the washington post writes, quote, year by year, cpac has become less and less of a wonky conservative movement networking event and more and more of a circus. the guest list features fewer and fewer policy experts debating the correct path for conservatives and more and more telegenic faces who usually populate the fox news green room. one after another, at cpac, serving up red meat. the tone is now indistinguishable from one of trump s campaign rallies. in a set of talk for a economic solutions to help american lives, cpac mainly focus on a politics
presidency, also new details in how fast the trump administration did intel on the current president. as you expect, democrats are fuming. plus, immigration and child labor, the latest in the msnbc exclusive investigation into how and why migrant kids were forced to work and slaughterhouses across this country. and later, tending to the whole flock. we ll speak to a bishop working to make sure that lgbtq community has a home in his church. this is american voices. we begin this hour with the story of donald trump and how he transformed the republican party into his own image. no better example of that and this week s conservative political action conference, cpac, once a platform for leading conservative thinkers, now a extremism. cpac attendees are doubling down on trumpism ahead of the 2024 race for president. this afternoon, trump got to the cpac florida governor ron desantis trailing with just 20% of the vote. results fueled by cpac s growing devotion to the former pr
israel. we continue to press and expect for additional americans to be released, as well. we will not stop working until every hostage is returned to their loved ones. president biden speaking yesterday about an american girl who was orphaned by hamas terrorists and taken hostage. you heard the president mention 13 hostages in the end. 17 were freed yesterday. we ll have a live report from tel-aviv on the people still being held by hamas, as well as the future of the humanitarian pause in gaza. also ahead, the latest developments in the shooting of three college students of palestinian decent in vermont. the the fbi is investigating the attack. we ll have the very latest. plus, a tale of two thanksgivings. president biden sharing a message of optimism and unity. very hopeful, saying we need to come together, which i think, obviously, anybody running for president would be saying the same thing, right? sure, absolutely. donald trump, on the other hand, former preside
that s tonight on newsnight good evening. i m abby phillip in new york tonight. donald trump loves to be worshiped that much has been clear since he came down those golden escalators. but this week was especially notable because it gave us a mountain of new evidence that he remains idolized by evangelical voters even after 34 felony counts for crimes associated with hush money payments to an adult film actress. the support is ironclad, 80% of evangelical say they support him today let s start with what happened last night in arizona. donald trump held a town hall in a phoenix mega church. now the opening homily called for the crowd to pray over the presumptive nominee, but it was the smite die enemy s message that really rang out loud and clear. listen we do pray for our leaders. but father, if our leaders will not turn to you, if he will not turn to your word, if he will not return to justice, we pray that you would bring those leaders down. all of those people, all those in
That he has a cult like hold on. these evangelical fundamentalist followers it s moved if you track this from 2015, 2016 when evangelical world began to rally around and to where they are now, it s gone from support to idolatry. and what was once a bug is now a feature. so when they hear donald trump and they see the cruelty, the crude at the lawlessness the rage, the hatred, the vengeance for an awful lot of people who claim to be followers of jesus. it s life-giving, it s energizing, it s vilifying, it s a sad story. i said that his version of the christian faith, but we have to be able to name these, these things. we ve not seen anything like it, and i would say that donald trump is now the personification of what they want. it is not as if they re willing to tolerate some of his his vices. it s that they celebrate them. i mean, is this even about