US election: Is God still on Donald Trump’s side?
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The Times
3.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 29 October 2020
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
In 2016, 80 percent of white Evangelicals voted for President Trump. How has he repaid them? And four years on, can one of the largest denominations of any religion in the US help him stay in the White House?
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| 1:00.1 | Theresa might come to mind. Donald Trump? Probably not. |
| 1:05.0 | And yet, in 2016, Trump was elected president partly because of the support of the most vocal of America's Christians, the Evangelicals. the |
| 1:13.6 | most vocal of America's Christians, the Evangelicals. |
| 1:15.6 | And I really do believe we have God on our side. |
| 1:18.4 | I believe that. |
| 1:19.4 | I believe that. |
| 1:20.4 | We're protecting, or there would have been no way we could have won right people said how do you win you don't have the media you have so many things against you |
| 1:30.7 | four years on would they try to deliver what they see as their man, Jesus' man, back to the White |
| 1:36.1 | House? |
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| 1:41.4 | I am David Aronovich. Today, the Sunday Times. I am David Aronovich. Today the US election. Is God still on |
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