The Christian Case For Voting For Trump: Staying Home is Not the Moral High Ground This Election. Voting for Donald Trump Is; Can This Catholic Ballot Chasing Operation Make The Difference For Republicans This Fall?

The Christian Case For Voting For Trump:

Staying home is not the moral high ground this election. Voting for Donald Trump is

As the presidential election quickly approaches and is already underway in some states such as Pennsylvania, I am surprised to meet Christians — including evangelicals, Catholics, and mainline Protestants — who tell me they feel they have no choice but to abstain from voting for either candidate. While acknowledging that Kamala Harris would be no friend to Christians, they say they cannot vote for Donald Trump because of his “unpresidential” demeanor, hardline immigration policies, and most recently his comments on abortion policy.

It’s no secret that Trump is unconventional. Unlike most politicians, he says what he thinks. His style is more akin to a boxer in the ring than to a minister in the church pulpit. Of all the self-proclamations Trump has made, he’s never claimed to be a paragon of virtue. Yet Trump has proven to be a competent defender of Christians and our fundamental rights.

During his first term, Trump protected the conscience rights of doctors, nurses, teachers, and religious groups such as the Little Sisters of the Poor. He doubled the child tax credit, expanded paid family leave, proudly brought back the public celebration of Christmas, stood with our Jewish brothers and sisters by moving the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem, and took unprecedented action to rescue victims from the evil of human trafficking.

Crucially, Trump also did more to protect mothers and their unborn babies than any other president in modern history. In addition to instituting many pro-life policies, he appointed the three Supreme Court justices who played an indispensable role in overturning Roe v. Wade — the single greatest victory for protecting the right to life since the ruling in 1973.

Some people still prefer less controversial candidates than Trump. But it is Trump’s unconventional approach — his willingness to buck bureaucratic norms, stay the course when it really counted, and take the heat from corporate media, Democrats, and lukewarm Republicans — that produced such astounding results that decades of conservative leaders failed to deliver.

Kamala Harris, meanwhile, has shown herself to be openly hostile to both Christian values and individual believers. Her record over the past four years and policy proposals for the next four should make every faithful Christian shudder. —>READ MORE HERE

Can This Catholic Ballot Chasing Operation Make The Difference For Republicans This Fall?

Catholics for Catholics is aiming to chase thousands of low-propensity Catholic voters across seven swing states ahead of the 2024 election.

ith Election Day right around the corner, some conservatives are sounding the alarm about a reported lack of enthusiasm among Christians to vote this election season.

The fears stem from a study published Monday by Arizona Christian University’s Cultural Research Center, which found “that as many as 104 million people of faith are unlikely to vote in this upcoming election — and among those, 32 million self-identified Christians who regularly attend church won’t cast their ballots.” Among the reasons behind these Christians’ lack of civic participation this November are a lack of interest in “politics and elections” and dissatisfaction with “all of the major candidates.”

If those estimates are remotely close to true, the analysis summarized, “the impact bodes more poorly for President Trump’s prospects for reelection than for Mrs. Harris’ effort to succeed Joe Biden.”

With so much at stake this November, Christian organizations are working to galvanize faith-oriented voters to cast ballots this November. One group in particular, however, is setting its sights on chasing the ballots of one denomination that could be crucial in determining which party wins the White House.

Catholics for Catholics (CforC) is a 501(c)(4) organization focused on Catholic voter turnout in seven swing states: Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. As noted in the ACU study, there are an estimated 19 million adults who “attend a Catholic church” and are unlikely to vote this year.

It’s those types of low-propensity Catholic voters whose ballots the group is chasing ahead of Election Day, CforC President John Yep told The Federalist.

“It’s two groups of people that are going to really help swing this election, [with] number one [being] Catholic voters in swing states,” Yep said.

The Gameplan

While CforC’s ballot chasing operation officially launched in June, early development for the program started in January.

According to Yep, the group was approached by Turning Point Action (TPA) — which launched its ballot chase endeavor earlier this year — to spearhead efforts to target and turn out low-propensity Catholic voters during the 2024 election season. Under their working relationship, the two conservative organizations have a data-sharing agreement in place that allows CforC to utilize the voter information amassed by Turning Point.

As The Federalist previously reported, TPA’s “Chase the Vote” employs “the most recent voter roll data acquired from local and state governments.” The group’s data team subsequently used this information to develop custom wards and precincts “containing hundreds of … prospective electors” in these areas. —>READ MORE HERE

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