In a recent interview with CBN aboard Air Force One, President Trump said he believes evangelicals will show up at the polls for next week’s midterm elections because no one has done more for them than him.
The comments came amidst a discussion about the upcoming midterm elections as President Trump hopped across the country to campaign for GOP candidates. The interviewer talked about Trump’s strong evangelical support in 2016 and wondered if they would show up for an election when he was not running.
President Trump responded, “Well, they’re going to show up for me because nobody’s done more for Christians or evangelicals or frankly religion than I have. You’ve seen all the things that we’ve passed including the Johnson Amendment and so many things we’ve nullified. Nobody’s done more than we have.”
President Trump spoke about his desire to repeal the Johnson Amendment during his Presidential Campaign. The amendment, named after former President Lyndon Johnson, who proposed it when he was a Senator in 1954, puts the tax-exempt status of churches in jeopardy if they endorse candidates for public office.
President Trump told the audience at the 2017 National Prayer Breakfast that he planned to “totally destroy” the Johnson Amendment. However, a repeal of the Johnson Amendment was not included in the 2017 tax legislation….
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