Trump tells Christian voters they will not have to vote again in four years
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WVIR) - Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is facing backlash after a public statement at the Turning Point Action Believers’ Summit in Florida.
Trump urged Christian audience members to vote for him and stated that “in four years, you don’t have to vote again.”
J. Miles Coleman with the Center for Politics at UVA says there are two ways to interpret the statement. He says Trump could have been energizing Christian voters to head to the polls.
Or, he says, Trump could be displaying signs of what Democrats would call dictatorial tendencies.
“When I first saw it in isolation, it did look like he was saying, okay, well, we might not have elections in four years,” Coleman said. “But really, if you look at it in the context of the rest of the speech, it did take on more of a ‘get out the vote’ type message.”
Coleman urges Americans to conduct their own research and consider everything within its context, particularly in a modern political discourse riddled with misinformation.
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