Trump's 'uncomfortable charade' with evangelicals is hitting a wall: analyst

Add to the reports that Donald Trump has become "exhausted" due to the rigors of campaigning for a second shot at the Oval Office a new report that he isn't giving his all to woo evangelical voters with the election less than two weeks away. "The abbreviated, uncomfortable charade showed how Trump, in his third presidential run, has dispensed with the GOP’s farcical claim to being the party of religious Americans, relying instead on his status as a messiah figure to mobilize his loyal base of white evangelical voters" she wrote before noting the former president mailed it in when asked to "share a final message to those Christians to encourage them to go to the polls.” Instead, Trump insulted his hosts, saying, "Christians are not tremendous voters,” before spending approximately three minutes listing off some of his usual grievances such including "'not nice' and 'stupid' people, guns and COVID restrictions, without completing coherent sentences or thoughts." Posner added, "But Trump seems to have little energy for any battle, spiritual or otherwise, and has drifted away from Christian right leaders who, unlike Kirk, have proven track records in organizing and energizing evangelical voters." After pointing out that, "Trump appears adrift in his evangelical mobilization, meandering through disconnected verbal thickets of insults and boasts, unable to focus on issues or hammer home talking points," Posner stated that, should he lose to Kamala Harris, "recriminations will fly among Republicans and Christian right powerbrokers about whether he did enough to get these voters to the polls."