Do you want a place like Utah with all those Mormons leading this country and telling you what you can preach? Just sayin'..... You might as well have Mexico, but hey, I love their cheap laborours, or Iraq immigrants as your 'leader'. Crazy! Can't help but 'love'em, but you just gotta wonder what they would do. Not good! We need a Real Christian in the White House instead of the guy who 'invented' ISIS, just kidding of course, don't they know a 'joke' when they hear one. It's a 'joke'.... 'probably', folks. Get over it already! I just Know there's some stupid, lying, disgusting reporter out there that's gonna bend my words to make me 'look' bad. You just can't trust a reporter! Their lies are causing a drop in my polls folks! I might have to take their Press credentials away from them. They have no place even being Near the White House! 'Freedom of The Press' stops right Here! They've been given way too much freedom to make a 'good' person like myself, look bad. My BFF Vlad Putin knows how to handle the press. You don't see Them bad mouthing Him do you? I've been taking 'notes', and I know just how to mash them like the bugs they are! Hateful people! Disgusting! They want to silence Christians everywhere but we can't let them do that! Can't! I'll bring Jesus back to America and the White House! Anyone who doesn't love Jesus will have to Go! I'll make sure there's a 'special' place for them to be shipped off to. This is America, 'home of the brave, land of the free'. Christians, vote for me, get out there and vote for me and I'll Show you what Jesus would do. I'm the Man! Wait until you see what I will do To, er...For America! You ain't seen Nothing yet, nothing..nothing. Remember, a wasted vote is a vote you'll have to live with for at least Four lonnnnnng miserable years. :O :(
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Trump on Christianity: 'We're gonna bring it back'
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump told conservative pastors in Florida, Aug. 11, that if he's elected, they will "have great power." Trump pledged to take on a law that bars tax-exempt organizations from getting involved in political campaigns.Trump pledges to take on a law that bars tax-exempt organizations from getting involved in political campaigns. (The Washington Post)
Trump tried to draw a direct distinction between himself and Mitt Romney, the party’s 2012 nominee, who would have become the nation’s first Mormon president. Echoing some post-2012 analysis suggesting that Romney’s religion led some evangelicals to stay home, Trump said “religion didn’t get out and vote” for the former governor, “whatever the reason.”
Throughout the day, Trump also intensified his attacks against Democratic rival Hillary Clinton and President Obama, repeatedly casting them as co-founders of the Islamic State terrorist group as a result of their Middle East policies.
Adding to party leaders’ worries, Trump signaled in a television interview that he does not intend to change the way he campaigns, despite fears that his proclivity for picking distracting fights could cost him the election.
Here in Orlando, he spoke to leaders of evangelical Christian groups, some of whom have privately expressed skepticism about Mormons. Trump stressed his difficulties in the country’s only majority-Mormon state — making an apparent play for support by noting that he has a “tremendous problem” in Utah.
These 10 states are in play in the 2016 election. Here is where they're polling as of August and how much weight they'll have in November.These 10 states are in play in the 2016 election. Here is where they're polling as of August and how much weight they'll have in November. (Sarah Parnass/The Washington Post)
“You’ve got to get your people out to vote,” he said.
Trump called Utah “a different place” and asked whether anyone in the crowd was from the state.
“I didn’t think so,” he said. Some laughed.
Trailing in the polls, Trump can ill-afford to lose support among Christian conservatives nationwide. He must find a way to prevent Utah from slipping away as he faces a daunting electoral map with little margin for error.
“We’re having a problem,” Trump repeated. He added that he has been “given a false narrative.”
Recent polls have shown Clinton within striking distance of Trump in Utah. Trump’s brash style appears to have turned off much of the state’s large Mormon population, as it did during the GOP primary campaign. Trump lost badly to Sen. Ted Cruz (Tex.) in Utah’s Republican caucuses.
The last time a Democratic presidential candidate won Utah was the landslide election of 1964, when President Lyndon B. Johnson easily defeated Republican Barry Goldwater.
With a subdued tone and a suggestion that a winning presidential campaign could get him into heaven, Trump spoke for 40 minutes Thursday afternoon to the crowd of 700 pastors and their spouses. He drew a standing ovation and occasional shouts of “amen” as he promised to restore the vigor of church life.
Trump was squarely in businessman mode, staying away from theology and divisive social issues during his address, instead suggesting that the church had lost its leverage and its popularity because of government interference.
He offered a simple formula to bring back the power of religion: repealing a federal rule that limits churches and other tax-exempt organizations from participating in electoral politics.
“You’ve lost your voice,” Trump told the audience of church leaders. “We’re going to get it back.” He then dove into the history of an amendment introduced in the 1950s by then-Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson (D-Tex.) that limited electoral activity by tax-exempt groups.
His message resonated with this particular group of clerics, who gathered in Orlando to receive training in encouraging political activity by conservative church members.
Trump proudly announced that he scrapped plans to deliver a scripted “ho-hum” speech in favor of giving a more casual talk.
“Did you notice I took the teleprompters down?” he asked.
Trump credited evangelicals during his convention speech last month for their role in his campaign, saying, “The support they have given me, and I’m not sure I totally deserve it, has been so amazing.”
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