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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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David Smith in Washington

In Trump we trust: religious right on crusade to make their man president

Men and women close eyes and pray
Trump in prayer at an Evangelicals for Trump meeting in Miami in January 2020. Photograph: Tom Brenner/Reuters

God’s army is on the march. And many of its foot soldiers are wearing “Make America great again” regalia, sensing that their unlikely standard-bearer, former US president Donald Trump, is once again close to the promised land.

“I do not believe that America can survive another four years of Joe Biden,” Ralph Reed, founder and chair of the Faith & Freedom Coalition, told a gathering of the religious right in Washington on Friday. “I haven’t felt this way since Jimmy Carter was president.” The audience burst into knowing laughter.

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