Will they vote for Joe Biden? Unlikely.
But they just may stay home, which is the next best thing.
And Pat Robertson wasn’t the only one disapproving of Trump’s recent “sex with a Bible”
In March, nearly 80 percent of white evangelicals said they approved of the job Mr. Trump was doing, PRRI found. But by the end of May, with the country convulsed by racial discord, Mr. Trump’s favorability among white evangelicals had fallen 15 percentage points to 62 percent, according to a PRRI poll released Thursday. That is consistent with declines that other surveys have picked up recently.
Among white Catholics, the same poll also found that his approval has fallen by 27 points since March.
That’s right……...
80% support, down to 62%
As for evangelical support, he’s back to where he was before the 2016 election.
81% of Evangelicals then STILL voted for him then.
But this isn’t 2016.
The Bible stunt wasn’t what freaked them out.
It was his handling of COVID-19, and his violent crackdown on peaceful protestors.
Jesus was a peaceful protestor
Except for that little synagogue-trashing incident……..
The more terrified Trump gets of losing, the more disastrous are his mistakes.
And he isn’t the type to change.
He can’t.
It’s just not in him.
Remember the four or five times since 2015, that he was cajoled by his staff into reading an “apology” or “retraction” from a script, off a teleprompter?
Remember how, every single time, less than 24 hours later, he tweeted the exact opposite with defiance, rancor and venom?
Then there’s this:
This week, Trump’s calls for a crackdown here on nationwide protests over police brutality have drawn rebukes from civil rights advocates, religious leaders, opposition Democrats and some fellow Republicans.
Even former Republican president George W Bush felt the need to issue a statement that the protesters be heard here
Yes, the very same George W. Bush who instituted “Free speech Zones” after 9/11 is scolding Trump over his disastrous handling of peaceful protests.
Perhaps of more concern to Trump and his re-election campaign, however, is that almost every opinion poll points to clear signs of erosion of his electoral support since the novel coronavirus pandemic, which has taken almost 109,000 American lives since February and led to 40 million jobless claims.
At the same time, his Democratic opponent in the Nov. 3 election, Joe Biden, has re-emerged in public from a coronavirus lockdown, with a message of unity and civic healing here that stands in marked contrast to Trump’s talk of “thugs” and “lowlifes” and “law and order.”
So far, Trump’s aggressive tone does not seem to be matching the moment. An opinion poll by Reuters/Ipsos this week showed that a bipartisan majority of Americans, including twice as many independents, sympathize with protesters and disapprove of Trump’s bellicose response.