Evangelicals See Trump Impeachment as an Attack on Their Values
- President’s Republican support is steady despite House inquiry
- Trump to speak to social conservatives at Values Voter Summit
Donald Trump during a rally in Minneapolis on Oct. 10, 2019.
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While Donald Trump is the target of an impeachment inquiry on Capitol Hill, evangelical Christians who gathered across town were unfazed by his request of Ukraine to investigate political rival Joe Biden.
On Friday, a succession of speakers delivered paeans to Trump at the annual Values Voter Summit, which the president is set to headline on Saturday. Trump’s allies have drawn a warm embrace from a core Republican constituency that feels under siege from modern social changes such as same-sex marriage and mass immigration.