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Trump’s Black Allies Want to Win Over Black Christians. Will it Work?

By Faith Branch
Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump poses for a photograph with an audience member wearing a hat reading “Jesus is my Savior, Trump is my President” after a campaign community roundtable at 180 Church in Detroit, June 15, 2024. REUTERS/Brian Snyder 
Sep 23, 2024
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Armed with the message that Americans have become too morally liberal and strayed too far from God’s light, a few Black conservative Christians, like Pastor Lorenzo Sewell, are trying to upend the historic support of Black Protestants for the Democratic party.

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Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump poses for a photograph with an audience member wearing a hat reading “Jesus is my Savior, Trump is my President” after a campaign community roundtable at 180 Church in Detroit, June 15, 2024. REUTERS/Brian Snyder