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Someone has to explain something to me in simple language.<\/p>\n

My question goes like this: How does Donald J. Trump continue to hold tightly onto support from the evangelical Christian community?<\/p>\n

I ask because of a blog posted by R.G. Ratcliffe in Texas Monthly. Ratcliffe writes about a potential Republican challenger for U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz next year from an evangelical TV network executive who is angry that Cruz didn’t endorse Trump at the 2016 Republican presidential nominating convention.<\/p>\n

The challenge might come from Bruce K. Jacobson Jr., vice president for LIFE Outreach International and an aide to James Robison, a noted televangelist.<\/p>\n

I do not get this! Honest! It confuses me in the extreme!<\/p>\n

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The president of the United States would seem to be totally anathema to the evangelical movement, given the president’s past. He has bragged about his marital infidelity; he has admitted to groping women; he never has been associated with faith-based causes or associated openly with religious organizations.<\/p>\n

Sen. Cruz has been much friendlier to evangelical causes than Trump ever had been prior to his becoming president. Jacobson, though, holds Cruz’s non-endorsement at the RNC in 2016 against him.<\/p>\n

As Ratcliffe writes:\u00a0Cruz had signed a pledge to support the party\u2019s nominee, Jacobson said, but then didn\u2019t follow through at the convention. \u201cI\u2019m concerned about anybody who doesn\u2019t keep their word. I\u2019ve very concerned about that. In Texas, when we give our word, it\u2019s our word,\u201d Jacobson said.<\/em><\/p>\n

If memory serves, Cruz made that pledge early in the GOP presidential primary campaign, only to be humiliated personally by Trump’s insults and lies. Trump disparaged Cruz’s wife with a cruel tweet and then suggested the senator’s father was linked somehow to the assassination of President Kennedy. Cruz called Trump an “amoral” liar, which I also happen to believe he is.<\/p>\n

Did the eventual Republican nominee conduct himself as a “good Christian” with that kind of behavior?<\/p>\n

I don’t know about you, but I am not at all surprised — nor displeased — that Ted Cruz chose not to “endorse” Trump at the 2016 Republican convention.<\/p>\n

So here we are. Cruz stood on a principle of fair treatment and for that he might get a Republican Party primary challenge from an evangelical Christian leader?<\/p>\n

Explain it to me. Please.<\/p>\n\n

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