Former President Donald Trump has lost some support from evangelical pastors, according to a new poll.
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... When the Rev. Lee Scott publicly endorsed Kamala Harris for president during the Evangelicals for Harris Zoom call on Aug. 14, the Presbyterian pastor and farmer said he was taking a risk.[emphasis mine]
"The easy thing for us to do this year would be to keep our heads down, go to the ballot box, keep our vote secret and go about our business," Scott told the group, which garnered roughly 3,200 viewers according to organizers. "But at this time, I just can't do that."
Scott lives in Butler, Pennsylvania, the same town where a would-be assassin shot former President Donald Trump in July. Scott told The Associated Press that the attack and its impact on his community pushed him to speak out against Trump and the "vitriol" and "acceptable violence" he normalized in politics. ...
"I am tired of watching meanness, bigotry and recreational cruelty be the worldly witness of our faith," Scott said on the call. ...
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