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Chasing the Base: Iowa Evangelicals and Trump

WSJ What’s News

The Wall Street Journal

Daily News, News

4.14.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2024

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Evangelical Christians hold great sway over Iowa’s Republican caucuses. They set back Donald Trump in 2016 when Ted Cruz finished ahead of him. Since then, Trump appointed conservative judges to the U.S. Supreme Court who voted to overturn Roe v. Wade, which provided federal abortion protections. He also has been found liable for sexual abuse. WSJ political reporter Jimmy Vielkind travels to Des Moines and its surrounding communities to speak with evangelical voters who support Trump despite misgivings about his personal life, and those who did so previously but may be going a different direction this election. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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I've heard about this baby boy who's come to a... Sunday Services at Woodland Hills Church of Christ, a small

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evangelical church a little west of Des Moines Iowa are a time of prayer and

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reflection.

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Our Father who art in heaven, Allah be thy name.

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On a recent Sunday, the congregants here were contemplating what it means to do right and seek

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justice. They sang and seek justice.

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They sang and shook hands aside silhouettes of the Holy Family.

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Then they adjourned for a post-service lunch in nearby Altoona

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at a grocery store.

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Now this is also a congregation of voters and they often talk about who they like best in the state's January 15th

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nominating caucuses and whether they'll support Donald Trump's quest for another

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term in the White House.

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