A letter signed by seventy-four black church leaders called white evangelicals who voted for Trump a “radical faction.”28 They couldn’t possibly have voted for him out of concerns over Hillary’s radical policies, Benghazi, email servers, the corrupt Clinton political machinery, the desire to have a businessman and outsider who wouldn’t back down against the left or the press, or even sheer pragmatism. It had to be racism! And I say this as someone who supported Ted Cruz in the 2016 primary. I even attended a private Cruz campaign event and lamented the pragmatism of evangelicals who abandoned
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