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(CP) In a historic political comeback on Tuesday, former President Donald Trump was reelected for a second, nonconsecutive time period to function the forty seventh president of the United States, and he has promised to “assist our nation heal” after a bruising marketing campaign throughout which he escaped two assassination makes an attempt.
“This is a motion like no person’s ever seen earlier than and, frankly, this was, I consider, the best political motion of all time. There’s by no means been something like this on this nation, and possibly […] now it’ll attain a brand new degree of significance as a result of we’ll assist our nation heal,” Trump mentioned in his victory speech.
“We’re going to assist our nation heal. We have a rustic that wants assist, and it wants assist very badly. We’re going to repair our borders, we’ll repair all the things about our nation, and we have made historical past for a cause tonight, and the reason being going to be simply that.”
Trump, who was additionally completely happy about successful the favored vote this time round, promised to make all of the individuals who supported him completely happy about their resolution.
“Winning the favored vote was very good, very good, I’ll inform you. It’s a fantastic, a fantastic feeling of affection. We have a fantastic feeling of affection on this very massive room with unbelievable individuals standing by my facet. These individuals have been unbelievable; they’ve made the journey with me, and we’ll make you very completely happy; we’ll make you very pleased with your vote,” he mentioned. “I hope that you will be wanting again sometime and say, that was one of many actually necessary moments of my life after I voted for this group of individuals past the president, this group of nice individuals.”
Many of the individuals who supported Trump have been outspoken Christian leaders who have been fast to publicly congratulate him on his victory. Here are 10 reactions from Christian leaders throughout the nation on Trump’s reelection victory.
1. SBC President Clint Pressley and pastor of Hickory Grove Baptist Church in North Carolina
“Thanks be to God for a decisive outcome within the presidential contest and for pro-life victories in Florida, Nebraska, and South Dakota. Congratulations to President-elect @actualDonaldTrump and Vice President-elect @JDVance,” Pressley wrote on X. “I and thousands and thousands of my fellow Southern Baptists shall be praying for you. ‘The LORD reigns, let the earth rejoice.’ — Psalm 97:1.”
2. Albert Mohler, president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Boyce College, and editor of World opinions
In his op-ed for World on Wednesday, Mohler praised president-elect Donald Trump’s victory speech as “gracious and constructive.”
“Trump known as for Americans to ‘put the divisions of the previous behind us,’ and he introduced a heat and alluring imaginative and prescient of America’s future. He spoke of God saving his life when a shooter tried to assassinate him — and got here so very near doing so. In the course of his marketing campaign, Trump has usually spoken in far darker phrases and with far much less graciousness. The American individuals have given him the rarest of items: a second presidency. Only President Grover Cleveland can declare the identical. So a lot now rests on Trump’s shoulders,” he wrote.
“The proper response of the American individuals is to organize for a brand new president and to work collectively to handle the nice challenges we face,” he mentioned.
“We want Donald Trump to reside as much as the spirit of his phrases introduced this morning. He has a possibility to alter historical past. He was elected with nice hopes and expectations and big challenges. He has usually proved to be his personal worst enemy. We want Donald Trump to be as sturdy as he sees himself to be and to be a statesman equal to those demanding instances.
“As Christians, our activity is now to wish for President-elect Trump and for our nation. We know that a lot earlier than we all know the rest. The American electoral system labored and produced a transparent winner.”
3. Ben Carson, retired neurosurgeon and former Secretary of the U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
“America first. America all the time. Congratulations to my good pal and the subsequent President of the United States, @realdonaldtrump!!” Carson wrote on X Wednesday morning. “As I mentioned earlier right this moment, God just isn’t accomplished with our nation. Let’s get to work.”
4. Franklin Graham, president and CEO of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and Samaritan’s Purse
“Congratulations to @actualDonaldTrump on being elected the forty seventh president of the United States of America! I pray that you’ll look to God day-after-day for His steering and knowledge,” he wrote on X.
5. Pastor Dwight Mckissic, founder and senior pastor of Cornerstone Baptist Church in Arlington, Texas
McKissic who was amongst a lot of Evangelicals to vote in opposition to Trump and even wrote an op-ed for MSNBC about it, blamed Evangelicals for sexism.
“If the lack of Harris needed to be boiled down to 1 issue right here, William Wolfe has mentioned it out loud….the overwhelming majority of evangelical America, and America at massive…didn’t desire a girl president,” he wrote on X. “Took America a very long time to just accept and assist a black president…and even longer to assist a feminine president. God but reigns, and that is the place I discover my peace and pleasure.”
6. Paula White-Cain, former senior pastor of City of Destiny Church and non secular adviser to Trump
In congratulating Trump on his victory, White-Cain highlighted their longstanding relationship and his mission to “make America nice once more.”
“CONGRATULATIONS PRESIDENT TRUMP! @realdonaldtrump. I’m so grateful to be part of this journey for twenty-four years!” she wrote on Instagram. “I’m honored to face with you, with the American individuals, and with God’s youngsters to Make America GREAT Again!”
7. Bishop Talbert Swan, president of the Greater Springfield NAACP in Massachusetts
Swan, who has staunchly oppose president-elect Donald Trump for years, didn’t change his place on Wednesday morning.
“The election of Donald Trump threatens the hard-won rights of marginalized communities. Under his management, we threat seeing setbacks for black Americans, immigrants, ladies, and the disabled as he empowers insurance policies rooted in bigotry and exclusion,” he wrote on X.
“Trump’s presidency will embolden white supremacy, placing Black communities in peril. Hate crimes spiked throughout his first time period, and historical past exhibits us these assaults are solely more likely to enhance as he pushes division,” he continued. “America ought to put together for a rollback of civil rights good points. Trump’s administration has a historical past of dismantling protections, and we’re more likely to see extra makes an attempt to undermine the Voting Rights Act, reasonably priced healthcare, and social security nets.”
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