As former president donald trump As he finished his nearly 75-minute speech Friday night, he gave a final pitch to the Christian conservative crowd, saying that if they voted for him on Election Day, they would never be forced to vote again.
“I don’t care how, but you have to get out and vote,” Trump said at the Turning Point Action Believers Summit in West Palm Beach. “Christians, go out and vote just this once.”
“You won’t have to do this anymore. Four more years. You know what? It will be fixed,” Trump said.
He added, “I love you Christians. I’m a Christian. I love you, get out, you gotta get out and vote. In four years, you don’t have to vote again, we’re going to fix this, so I’m glad you won’t have to vote.”
O Harris The campaign is characterizing Trump’s comment that if Christians vote this time, they will no longer have to do so as a “vote to end democracy.”
“When Vice President Harris says this election is about freedom, she means it. Our democracy is under attack from the criminal Donald Trump,” Harris said through the president’s spokesman, James Singer. “Donald Trump wants to take America backwards to a politics of hate, chaos and fear – this November America will unite behind Vice President Kamala Harris to stop him.”
The meeting focused on divine intervention – where Trump reiterated that the power of prayer and the grace of Almighty God saved his life two weeks ago when a bullet struck him in an assassination attempt.
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“We want to thank every single believer in this room for your prayers and your incredible support. I really appreciate it. Something was working, this we know, something was working,” Trump opened his speech. “I stand before you tonight, thanks to the power of prayer and the grace of Almighty God.”
Trump also suggested that Christians not vote “proportionately,” something Trump frequently discussed on the campaign trail.
“I don’t want to scold you, but did you know that Christians don’t vote proportionally?” Trump asked the crowd.
Trump’s comments circulated on social media as users suggested that his comments seemed similar to when he commented that he would be a dictator but only on “day one” and suggested that Trump was alluding to never leaving the White House.
Trump’s campaign released a statement clarifying what the former president might have meant by his message to Christian voters. His campaign suggested he was talking about the “importance of faith”, “uniting the country” and bringing prosperity”.
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“President Trump was talking about the importance of faith, uniting this country and bringing prosperity to all Americans, as opposed to the divisive political environment that has sown so much division and even resulted in an assassination attempt,” the campaign spokesperson wrote of Trump, Steven Cheung, in a statement.
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