Huckabee: Evangelicals Don’t Pretend Trump’s One of Them, They Know He’s Not
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ORTAGUS: "Good morning governor, this is Morgan. You have been a respected member of the evangelical community representing Republican Party for a long time. My parents love in you Florida. We are talking a lot about Trump, we are not talking about Cruz ... He is still drawing a lot of evangelical support, in this primary, even until today. Tell me where you think he evangelicals are coming down as we go forward. I know a lot of evangelicals that believe in family values have a problem with one married three times talks about his sexual exploits when married with other married women."
HUCKABEE: "Donald Trump continues to win with evangelicals he beat Ted Cruz in South Carolina, and all southern states supposed to be Ted Cruz's firewall he based his campaign on that notion. that he would win South Carolina, in a big way, he would win the sec states a big way because of the he evangelicals where as many as 75% of the voters in those states are evangelical. but, again, this is an election evangelicals I heard at my you church on Sunday, yes, they understand all the -- the flaws and the -- the he blemishes on Donald Trump they get it they are tired of seeing jobs disappear feel their country is getting away from them, they don't pretend Donald trump is one of them, they know he is not but else this are kind of -- maybe refreshed for the fact he doesn't pretend, he doesn't say one thing does something different."
MCDOWELL: "And governor, those people with Christian heart and mind judge the man standing in front of them today they don't judge his past do you agree with that?"
HUCKABEE: "Absolutely. And I don't think that for many of them, they are voting for Donald Trump because they say oh, you know he will be sitting with me in church next Sunday they are pretty sure he wouldn't about it they are willing to say that he will defend their religious liberty so they won't be harassed because they did go to church that is more important to them than who they elect to be president."
ORTAGUS: "But that us not for all evangelicals, to be fair. Cruz has had a lot of evangelical support, a ton of evangelicals in Florida today who still have a problem with still think familiar values matter more than you are describing them."
MCDOWELL: "The people who supported him throughout the south -- he didn't win Cruz did not win southern states."
HUCKABEE: "Right. look it does matter to many people. There are a lot of evangelicals who are apoplectic that there are christian people leaders that endorsed Trump that blows their mind. I think if they talk to voters, look evangelicals had never been monolithic in voting patterns. I am pro-life voter a pro family voter, that matters to me, but, also, it matters to me that we are a country that protects ourselves secures our you boarders treat people fairly justly that hasn't happened in america there is a different set of rules for people in the ruling class, and the people in the working class, and those of who is have lived in the middle america know it and a lot of people are just flat sick of it, and they are willing to forgive a lot of things in Donald Trump's personal life, if they think that he will punch the light figuratively speaking, of this establishment ruling class that has been completely indifferent to what is happening here to real people."
