Feucht spent the Sunday before the election in Scottsdale, Arizonawith Turning Point USA’s Charlie Kirk and Republican Senatorial candidate Kari Lake, hosting a worship service called Pray For The Nation (Kirk endorsed Feucht during his campaign in Congress).
Other groups that have spent millions of dollars to get Trump re-elected and get out the vote include Ralph Reed’s Faith & Freedom Coalition, the American Family Association’s ivoterguide.com, the National Faith Advisory Board led by Paula White and My Faith Votes, Montgomery. he tells WIRED.
“Many Christian right media figures have significant media platforms that they use to promote Trump to their followers. Shows like FlashPoint on Kenneth Copeland’s Victory Channel provide a constant stream of pro-Trump propaganda,” Montgomery said. “Conservative Christians have been told time and time again that Trump has been anointed by God to lead the country. At a recent rally on the National Mall, New Apostolic Reformation leader Che Ahn issued an ‘apostolic decree’ that Trump would win the election.”
Although many conservatives While politicians have enjoyed broad support from evangelical Christians in the past, the way evangelical leaders speak of Trump as a messianic leader, particularly after July’s failed assassination attempt, is something new.
“Because many of Trump’s top evangelical advisors and most prominent evangelical boosters are charismatic, they have also used charismatic spirituality to imbue Trump with a quasi-messianic aura, using his prophecies and messages to link him to many biblical figures,” said Matthew Taylor, a senior fellow at the Institute of Islamic, Christian and Jewish Studies in Baltimore, where he specializes in American Christianity. “Paula White-Cain has been the chair of all of these efforts and the gatekeeper controlling religious leaders’ access to Trump, so she has played a critical role in guiding these connections.”
In addition to supporting Trump’s candidacy, evangelicals are also more willing to indulge the former president’s baseless claims that the 2020 election was stolen.
“Evangelical Christians, particularly but not exclusively white evangelicals, have been (Trump’s) most unwavering bloc of supporters,” Taylor said. “If about a third of the country believes Trump’s 2020 election lies, among white evangelicals it is closer to two-thirds.”
Trump, who has struggled to present himself as a man of faith; In 2016, he demonstrated a stranger even with the naming conventions of biblical texts—he himself has also been participating, attending a “Believers for Trump” in Michigan last month and participated in a “national faith summit” hosted by his first administration’s faith leader, Paula White, last week.
“We believe you are a vessel,” Pastor Jentezen Franklin told Trump on stage during the event. “You are a chosen vessel,” he added, comparing the former president to the apostle Paul.
