How much weightage does this endorsement have?
How much influence on Iowa??
Great endorsements for Trump no doubt.
I am just waiting for the day when the same evangelicals start talking about how the President isn’t doing anything about gay marriage or abortion.
I think both Falwell and Jeffress are Baptist in background. So it would probably influence Iowa Baptists more than any other groups, but “baptistic evangelicals” would also be influenced.
Doesn’t look like much:
Evangelical leader blasts Falwell for hosting Trump:
Russell Moore, who heads the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, the public policy arm of the Southern Baptist Convention, let fly a series of tweets after Falwell gave a glowing introduction to Trump....
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/01/russell-moore-trump-217939#ixzz3xcnLbK6w
I would guess little influence in Iowa. The preponderance of Iowa evangelicals are already supporting Cruz with a some still supporting Carson and Huckabee.
The Evangelical importance in Iowa is overstated. It happened during the last two cycles in the absence of Terry Branstad, who had stepped away from politics and left the Iowa GOP establishment foundering.
Branstad and his establishment are back for this cycle. Branstad favorite Chris Christie might get a boost from Iowa by ‘outperforming expectations’.