Maybe the evangelicals were tired of being blasted by the Left and Obama administration for being bigots and intolerant. Or maybe the evangelicals realized that by sitting out during the 2012 campaign and letting Obama win re-election was a mistake. Tony Perkins, leader of the Family Research Council, wrote an interesting piece on why the evangelicals turned out for Trump.
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