White evangelical support alone would lose Trump the presidency

Evidence

Mr. Church makes clear that turning Ohio red has nothing to do with keeping it white. In fact, much of the Awake 88 effort is targeted specifically at Latino pastors. This lines up with a message I’ve been hearing at activist gatherings. At the September 2018 Values Voters Summit, super-lobbyist Ralph Reed made the point bluntly. Mocking the mainstream pundits, he said, “They’re always talking about racial issues, it’s all about race and ethnicity. Not true! If you back evangelicals out of the white vote, Donald Trump loses with whites.” Reed is absolutely right about the top-line numbers, but he appears to brush off the ways in which conservative white evangelical religion and racism often reinforce each other. — Katherine Stewart, The Power Worshippers, 109

Categorization

• QUESTION: The chapter notes Black and Latino recruitment is a stated goal; worth chasing how effective or contradictory this is given the racism-evangelical entanglement the author flags.
• XREF: connects to: 81 percent of white evangelical voters elected Trump in 2016 — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne: How White…, 600; Forty-two percent of white evangelicals backed Trump before the Iowa caucuses — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne: How White…, 2

Broader Connections

• 81 percent of white evangelical voters elected Trump in 2016 #contradicts (0.85) — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne, 600
• Forty-two percent of white evangelicals backed Trump before the Iowa caucuses #contradicts (0.80) — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne, 2