DeSantis and Trump are getting support from anti-abortion evangelicals

Main Republican presidential primary candidates tried to attract votes from the evangelical Christian base this Friday by declaring an all-out war on abortion during an event in Washington, where overwhelming support for the two front-runners was evident, Ron Desantis and Donald Trumpalthough the latter was not even present.

Today and Saturday, most of the Republican candidates meet for the first time on the same stage, albeit individually, at the “Path to the Majority” conference organized by the evangelical organization. faith and freedom (faith and freedom).

This Friday, it was the turn of candidates like the governor Florida, Ron DeSantisformer vice president Mike Pence, businessman Vivek Ramaswamy, senator Tim Scott and former governors Chris Christie and Asa Hutchinson, while Trump and the former UN ambassador and the only woman who ran, Nikki Haley, are expected tomorrow.

If the intention of voting was measured by the biggest ovation, DeSantis and Trump They would be the undisputed favorites to win the Republican nomination for president in 2024, although the former president had the merits of not being there, and a standing ovation for his figure went up when North Carolina’s “number two” governor, Mark Robinson, announced that supports him as a candidate.

In the same way, if the intention to vote was estimated by the loudest whistling of someone who criticizes the candidate, Trump he would be the winner of the primary, after one of his rivals, ex-governor New Jersey Chris Christiehe was the only one who dared to categorically reject the figure of the former president and caused numerous public protests.

Of the candidates who spoke today, the one who sounded the most presidential DeSantis, Governor of Floridawho, like his other opponents, launched a fierce attack on abortion, knowing that the issue was a priority of his party’s influential Christian evangelical base.

DeSantis summed up perfectly what the scenario for the Republican arguments for recovery would be President 2024: “The war against the ‘awakened’ (progressive) ideology”.

“It is important to have a society rooted in the truth, don’t tell me that a person can get pregnant and expect them to accept it, I will not accept it,” he said and caused laughter from those present.

DeSantis got high on pushing the state law Florida which prohibits abortion from the sixth week of gestation and attacks gender-affirming treatments.

Whoever is elected, it became clear today that Republicans want to focus their campaign to return to the White House on America’s culture wars, from further restricting access to abortion to narrowing rights LGTBI collective or control what is taught in the classroom.

The candidate who felt the most like a fish in water this Friday in this manifestation of evangelical Christians was Mike Pencea man of strong religious convictions.

Even though everyone was talking about abortion today, that’s how it was until now a penny the most vocal to suggest a nationwide 15-week pregnancy ban, as Trump has avoided the issue, DeSantis he’s barely mentioned anything since he vetoed Florida in April, and the rest wasn’t very clear.

“All Republican presidential candidates should support the ban abortion fifteen weeks ago as the national minimum standard,” said Pence, who recalled that he became a “defender of the unborn” after the Supreme Court ruling “Roe v. Wade,” which legalized abortion in 1973 and was overturned by that court just a year ago .

Like Pence, veteran politicians like Former Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie they touted their anti-abortion record, while Miami Mayor Francis Suárez, their junior and the only Latino running for office so far, turned to his personal past, even before he was born.

“I am myself product of movement pro-life, actually my parents met at a pro-life protest,” he boasted.

In their speeches, the various candidates basically ignored each other, and Christie only mentioned the other candidate, who didn’t do very well with the criticism game Trumpand Pence, who complimented the former president more than criticized him, despite being very harsh on him at his campaign launch event.

“I have always been grateful for what the president has done Donald Trump,” Pence said.. It has been a privilege to serve as your Vice President and while we have had our differences and still have them, elections are the future.”

For the rest, the employer and also the candidate Vivek Ramaswamythe son of Indian immigrants, used his 37-year-old age to market himself as “the first millennial presidential candidate,” with a speech addressed to the party’s most traditional sector, in which he defended “that the life of the unborn is life and that there are two sexes.”

And Scott, one of the candidates African Americanhe focused his defense of abortion restrictions on the plight of black women and expressed regret that Joe Biden’s administration supports abortion access.