{"id":2619738,"date":"2026-06-26T18:40:36","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T22:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/christians-arent-voting-for-a-saint-theyre-voting-for-a-street-fighter\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T18:44:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T22:44:19","slug":"christians-arent-voting-for-a-saint-theyre-voting-for-a-street-fighter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/christians-arent-voting-for-a-saint-theyre-voting-for-a-street-fighter\/","title":{"rendered":"Christians aren&#8217;t voting for a saint \u2014 they&#8217;re voting for a street fighter"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fchristians-arent-voting-for-a-saint-theyre-voting-for-a-street-fighter%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2619738&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>At the annual Road to Majority Conference in Washington, D.C., Christians from various denominations expressed strong support for the Republican Party, with speeches from prominent figures including President Donald Trump and Pentecostal leader Samuel rodriguez, who emphasized Christian values aligning with Republican issues. Attendees like Otis Harris,who does not identify with a specific denomination,highlighted a message of unity in Christ. The event also featured discussions on the increasing political engagement of faith-based individuals and the shift of evangelicals towards supporting Donald Trump, partly due to his stance on issues like border security and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/shapiro-wokeifying-americas-military\/\" title=\"SHAPIRO: Wokeifying America\u2019s Military\">transgender surgeries<\/a>.Some speakers noted that Christians have historically avoided politics, but support for candidates like Trump grew because of perceived shared moral concerns. Retired Navy veteran James Gallagher commented on the alignment between Christianity and Republican principles,noting a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/38-iranian-dissidents-urge-biden-to-keep-trumps-pressure-on-despotic-regime\/\" title=\"38 Iranian Dissidents Urge Biden To Keep ...\u2019s Pressure On Despotic Regime\">political shift<\/a> where the Republican Party has become more representative of working-class Americans. the conference underlined the growing intertwining of faith and politics among conservative Christians, with the event scheduled to conclude on Saturday.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<article class=\"fn-body\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/christians\/\">Christians<\/a> of different denominations but <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >similar political backgrounds expressed strong support<\/a> for the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/republican-party\/\">Republican Party<\/a> at the annual Road to Majority Conference in <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/washington-dc\/\">Washington, D.C.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The event featured a myriad of talks from prominent Republican officials, including President Donald Trump, and was hosted by the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ffcoalition.com\/\">Faith &#038; Freedom Coalition<\/a>, which seeks to \u201cempower conservative political activists in the polls and in the public arena.\u201d <\/p>\n<section class=\"explore-more-section\" id=\"wex-recommended-widget\">\n<div class=\"magazine-container single\">\n<h1 class=\"magazine-title mt-2\">Recommended Stories<\/h1>\n<p>             <i class=\"fa-solid fa-play icon\"><\/i>         <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-grid\">\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/4626893\/ruben-gallego-marco-rubio-2028-democrats-in-trouble\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Gallego says Democrats are \u2018in trouble\u2019 in 2028 if Rubio is GOP nominee<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/4626516\/socialist-system-chronically-failed-guy-benson\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Socialist candidates promote system that has \u2018chronically failed everywhere\u2019: Guy Benson<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/4626222\/john-bolton-plead-guilty-court-today-mishandling-classified-documents\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>John Bolton to plead guilty to mishandling classified documents<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Attendee Otis Harris said he doesn\u2019t associate himself with a particular Christian denomination.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-1\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-1\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-15\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-1\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThere\u2019s no separation in Christ,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When asked about the Republican Party and the event\u2019s speakers, Harris said he doesn\u2019t consider himself very politically active or informed, though he liked the message of Samuel Rodriguez, president of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference, who he said urged a repentant lifestyle and heart. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In his speech, the Pentecostal Rodriguez expressed support for Republican issues, arguing that they better represented Christian values in a spiritual battle against evil.  <\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-2\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-2\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-16\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-2\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">John Pudner, who serves as president of the Wisconsin Faith and Freedom Coalition, said few evangelicals and fundamentalists voted in elections during the 1970s. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt was this feeling that politics is such a bad, messy thing,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019re Christians, why would we dirty our hands?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pudner said evangelicals were initially wary about Trump and his relationship to the Christian faith. <\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-3\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-3\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-17\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-3\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHe seemed like he\u2019s not really one of us,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, Pudner said he increasingly heard Christians claim they needed someone with Trump\u2019s temperament in politics. He believes fellow Christians felt they had been kicked around for too long, which helped increase support for Trump.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI kept hearing that, well, \u2018We just need a street fighter,\u2019\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019re not trying to elect him as our pastor, we\u2019re not trying to marry him, we\u2019re not trying to make him a poet. There\u2019s only a couple of Christians, sometimes you need someone who\u2019s maybe not quite as nice a Christian to win a battle.\u201d <\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-4\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-4\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-25\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-4\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pudner said he thinks it is unlikely that Trump is a practicing Christian, but he admires how Trump fights for the same <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/obama-era-ag-urges-democrats-to-pack-supreme-court-accuses-u-s-judicial-system-of-conservative-bias\/\" title=\"Obama-era AG urges Democrats to pack Supreme Court, accuses U.S. judicial system of ...conservative bias\u2019\">political issues<\/a> he supports, citing actions against illegal border crossings and transgender child surgeries as shared moral concerns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">James Gallagher, a retired Navy veteran who identifies as Roman Catholic, said he believes the Republican Party holds many of the same ideals and principles as Christianity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cChristianity fits better with the Republican Party,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-5\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-5\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-26\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-5\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gallagher said he thinks the Republican Party has recently shifted toward better representing working-class people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI think the Democratic Party used to be the party of working men and women, but now that\u2019s shifted, and now it\u2019s the Republican Party,\u201d he said.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/4460164\/trump-endorsement-tracker-gop-2026-election-primaries\/\"><strong>TRUMP ENDORSEMENT TRACKER: HERE\u2019S WHO THE PRESIDENT HAS PICKED IN GOP MIDTERM ELECTION PRIMARIES<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gallagher said he thinks faith-driven people have become more politically active within his lifetime. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI think the future is bright,\u201d he said. \u201cChristianity is on the rise, and we\u2019re becoming more interested in our government, and I think that\u2019s going to only help all Americans, no matter what their faith.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Road to Majority Conference will conclude on Saturday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christians 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