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Around 200 of the countrys most influential evangelicals will huddle on Friday and Saturday in hopes of coalescing their support around a single Republican presidential candidate.
The Council for National Policy, a secretive group of Christian donors, activists, and leaders that is currently overseen by Tony Perkins, the president of the Family Research Council, will meet behind closed doors at the Ritz-Carleton in McLean, Va. Over the two day period, they are expected to hear from a handful of 2016 hopefuls who are eager to woo them, including Carly Fiorina, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Bobby Jindal and Mike Huckabee.
The meeting will be closed to press.
Many evangelical leaders have expressed a desire to unite around a candidate. But privately, with multiple contenders presenting themselves as unflinching social conservatives, there is skepticism among Christian power-brokers that goal can be achieved. Still, there is little question that evangelicals will play a crucial role in the nominating contest: In the past, they have helped to swing the Iowa caucuses. Huckabee won the contest in 2008, while Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, another social conservative, won them four years later.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/05/evangelicals-support-2016-gop-candididate-council-for-national-policy-117989.html#ixzz3aDWs9hgP
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)boots of religious extremists and secretive billionaires and massive corporations to even get to the starting line for nomination for one of only two slots for nomination for leader of the free world.
n2doc
(47,953 posts)Gothmog
(145,894 posts)It is amusing that the social conservatives think that they have a voice. The RNC has rigged the rules and number of debates to make sure that Jeb or an establishment candidate is the nominee
louis-t
(23,313 posts)they have to do it in secret.