With Evangelical leaders upset over being blamed by Trump for 2022 GOP losses, the governor has a chance to win over a core part of his base.
, politically active Evangelical leaders in Iowa and elsewhere are basically sitting on their hands waiting to see how the 2024 contest unfolds:
In my recent conversations with some two dozen evangelical leaders — many of whom asked not to be named, all of whom backed Trump in 2016, throughout his presidency, and again in 2020 — not a single one would commit to supporting him in the 2024 Republican primary. And this was allthe speculation of his potential arrest on charges related to paying hush money to his porn-star paramour back in 2016.
This is just the opening Ron DeSantis needs, as he seems to understand. Right before his smashing midterm reelection, his campaign ran a very peculiar ad modeled very closely on broadcasting legendto an agricultural group explaining that “God created a farmer” on the eighth day of creation to take care of his handiwork.
To secular-minded viewers, this self-idolizing ad may have been over the top or even laugh-worthy. But to its larger target audience outside the state, it was exactly what the spin doctor ordered: a validation that DeSantis’s harsh and unforgiving war against “wokeness,” LGBTQ+ people, and “liberal education” in his state was motivated by the same religious motives as theirs.
To exploit his Evangelical opportunity before it fades, DeSantis doesn’t have a lot of time for subtlety. As Alberta notes, DeSantis really hasn’t done any prior spadework among Evangelical leaders. Little is know about his own spiritual life; he identifies as Catholic, but has conspicuously deployed the
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