Why the Evangelicals Fueling Ben Carson’s Rise Don’t Care That He’s a Seventh-Day Adventist
The boost evangelical voters gave Seventh-day Adventist Ben Carson in the polls this week — catapulting him for the first time to a clear GOP lead — is evidence of what experts are calling a continued evangelical shift away from identity politics.
In other words, it’s not the 1980s anymore, people.
News Tuesday of Carson’s rise among GOP primary voters followed an effort by longtime leader Donald Trump over the weekend to paint Carson’s faith as strange and unconventional. Trump called his own Presbyterian affiliation “down the middle of the road,” in contrast to Carson’s, about which he said: “I don’t know.”
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