Why are evangelicals supporting Ted Cruz and Donald Trump?

The Washington Post's The Plum Line ^ | December 23, 2015 | Greg Sargent

[2ndDivisionVet]

It’s one of the most intriguing sub-plots of the 2016 election: Why are evangelicals, who historically have supported immigration reform and a path to citizenship for deeply felt religious and moral reasons, gravitating towards the two candidates who are most hostile to policy changes that would accommodate and integrate undocumented immigrants into American life?

Cruz has been working behind the scenes to line up the support of influential evangelical leaders around the country, and it has been paying off: he has already rolled out some big endorsements, and many more are set to come. Meanwhile, Cruz and Donald Trump have been dominating among evangelical voters: the last two Quinnipiac polls have showed the two men scooping up around half of Republican-aligned white evangelicals, each with far more evangelical support than any other candidate.

This, despite the fact that some polls have also shown a majority of evangelicals want Congress to pass immigration reform and support a path to citizenship. Yet Trump (who favors mass deportations) and Cruz (who flatly opposes legalization and would end President Obama’s executive actions shielding DREAMers from deportation on Day One) are more at odds with that posture than the other GOP candidates....

[2ndDivisionVet]

Is there anyone more out-of-touch than a big city newspaper columnist or reporter?

[nopardons]

Yes,most of the supposed “conservatives” on FNC.

[dasboot]

They exist among a small, de-educated, herd-poisoned circle of persons who adore the bent opinions these editorialists proffer as wisdom.

[Hanna548]

I do not know a single Christian/Evangelical that supports any kind of citizenship for illegals. They are all in line with Trump, kick them out, keep them out policy.

[JSDude1]

This is too funny. Maybe it’s becaus they support policies evangelicals care about, maybe it’s becaus this author was fed a lie that evangelicals support immigration reform, duh.

[wac3rd]

Yes, the insulated politicians they write about who write the policies we loathe.

[Yosemitest]

Like they haven't got A CLUE. < /sarc>

Pay attention to just HOW MUCH the ILLEGAL ALIEN IN CHIEF and his IRANIAN SPY HATES CHRISTIANS !

This stinking piece of crap that's defiling our Oval Office is importing the Radical Islamists that will kill us.
When will congress get the guts to IMPEACH, CONVICT and EXECUTE that ILLEGAL ALIEN IN CHIEF ?

ALERT: Obama Busted Importing Jihad Into America [VIDEO (Fox News) ]

U.S. CITIES 'SECRETLY SELECTED' FOR IMPORTING MUSLIMS

SPREAD THIS: Is Your Hometown on Obama’s “Secret List” for Importing Muslims? [FULL LIST]

Department of State; Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration Office of Admissions - Refugee Processing Center Affiliate Directory

Read this article that exposes FACTS about Obama at Occidental College in 1981:

OBAMA'S RING: 'THERE IS NO GOD BUT ALLAH'
He's worn band on wedding-ring finger since BEFORE he met Michell !

Also, don't forget this:

Up to 34 MILLION blank 'green cards' and work permits to be ordered ahead of Obama illegal immigrant 'amnesty'
20 October 2014 | UPDATED: 28 October 2014

I'll bet the ILLEGAL ALIEN IN CHIEF and his IRANIAN SPY are intending on EVERY ONE OF THEM to be used for importing a RADICAL ISLAMIC TERRORIST !

UNHCR data confirms it: 75% of the so-called refugees arriving in Europe are MEN.

Invasion of Europe news….



We mentioned recently that it appears from some photos that the invaders of Europe are mostly fighting age young men.

The UN High Commissioner for Refugees does not tell us their ages, but does tell us that 75% are men. (Germans hide your daughters!)

Only 51% are Syrians, the rest are from all over the Middle East and Africa.

So, did the men abandon their women and children back home (in an unsafe country)?

[2ndDivisionVet]

Hence my comment at post #1.

[sheik yerbouty]

Deus Vult....

[Pollster1]

“Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s and unto God the things that are God’s.”

True Christians, including evangelical Christians, support the rule of law when the law is just. Many evangelical Christians are in favor of legal immigration, and of helping law-abiding refugees outside our country, but I have never met a Bible-believing Christian who supported illegal behaviors such as entering our country illegally.

[OrangeHoof]

Easy to figure. Most “mainstream” Republicans promised evangelicals they would fight things if elected and then they got to Washington and rubber stamped everything Obama wanted. All we really know about Trump and Cruz is that they won’t be doing that.

GOP, you were the ones that left us, not the other way around.

[Mark17]

Let me add an evangelical amen to that.

[firebrand]

Evangelicals support Cruz because he’s an evangelical like them.

Evangelicals support Trump because he has the farsightedness that evangelicals possess in secular matters. This can’t be copied, although Trump’s positions on individual issues can be.

[ssfromla]

Thank you for the links.

[Popman]

Why are evangelicals, who historically have supported immigration reform and a path to citizenship for deeply felt religious and moral reasons,

Wow...that's going to be a real surprise to millions of evangelicals...

This guy is clueless...

[jimfr]

It depends on the definition of evangelicals being used. The narrow definition does describe left leaning christains. But the definition that is used more often today is the broad one that generally includes all christians.

[arthurus]

9*Why would folks at the WaPo even ask? It is so far outside of their world that none of it makes sense to them.

[arthurus]

ALIEN IN CHIEF and his IRANIAN SPY HATE

ALIEN IN CHIEF or his IRANIAN SPY HATES

[jersey117]

In a word, FREEDOM.

[BobL]

“I do not know a single Christian/Evangelical that supports any kind of citizenship for illegals.”

Their problem is that the libs only talk to the Evangelical LEADERS. The libs learn a few bible passages and how to apply them to their specific left-wing agenda at one of their Communist ‘teach-ins’ and then start tugging on the sleeves of the top Evangelicals with lines like “take-in strangers” (for allowing open borders) and “stewards of the Earth” (for supporting the Global Warming agenda), etc.

The IDIOT leaders think they are ‘broadening the appeal of the cause’ and go on to preach their crap, while the left-wingers go back to their communes, smoke their dope, and plot their next move.

But the leaders only have ONE VOTE each, and the flock listens to BOTH SIDES, and between Cruz and Trump they realize what is going on, as the left is now learning.