President Trump has prayed with evangelicals in the White House. He’s nominated judges they like to federal courts, and granted their wish of moving the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem. For the president’s evangelical supporters, he has been a godsend.
And now he has a request for them: Get out the vote in November’s midterm elections.
But religious leaders on the left are also inspired to get their people to go the polls.
In the heart of the Virginia Theological Seminary campus, a pub named after the year the flagship Episcopal seminary was established — 1823 — recently hosted a get-out-the-vote event.