Why are liberals upset over the confirmation of Betsy DeVos as Education Secretary? Ralph Reed, Founder and Chairman of the Faith and Freedom Coalition, discusses his latest article, God, Betsy DeVos, and the liberal war on religion on The Larry O’Connor Show:
From the article:
The strategists inside Hillary Clinton’s Brooklyn campaign headquarters believed that demography was destiny and that a mythical ascendant majority of African-Americans, Hispanics, single women and millennials would elect their boss president of the United States.
In mapping out their strategies based on data analytics and computer modeling, the Clinton campaign strategists ignored—even held contempt for—people of faith. This dismissal of evangelicals and faithful Roman Catholics as part of a “basket of deplorables” proved to be a fatal mistake.
Indeed, people of faith ultimately fueled the Trump victory. According to exit polls, evangelical voters comprised 26 percent of the electorate in 2016, and they supported Donald Trump by a margin of 81 percent to 16 percent. Among the 33 percent of voters who self-identified as conservative Christians, they voted for Donald Trump by a margin of 78 percent to 15 percent over Hillary Clinton. [Read More]
