09/15/2023

Courting Evangelical Votes, Trump, DeSantis Converge on Washington, D.C.

This voting bloc is very important to GOP contenders

Today, former president Donald Trump and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis descended on Washington, both looking to win over evangelical Republicans, a voting bloc likely to play a pivotal role in selecting a 2024 presidential nominee.

DeSantis, who along with the rest of a crowded field trails Trump for the nomination, leaned into the culture war rhetoric that features prominently in his campaign, seeking support from social conservatives at a conference hosted by the evangelical Christian group Concerned Women for America.

"They want you to believe that a man can get pregnant," DeSantis said of Democrats. "They think it's appropriate to jam sexualized curriculum into elementary school classrooms."

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