Religious voters may disagree with President Trump’s rhetoric and tone, but Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden “is not an option” for them in Fox News’ 2020 presidential election Mike Huckabee said Sunday.
“The Democratic Party has gradually become more and more leftist about issues that for many believers, such as Israel, abortion, traditional marriage,” Huckabee told “Fox & Friends Weekend.”
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“These are areas where if the government and society do not want to embrace a biblical standard at all, Christians only want to be hated. We do not want anyone to impose a very secular leftist standard on the church,” Huckabee said. an ordained Christian minister, declared.
The former governor’s remarks come after Trump told Fox News correspondent Geraldo Rivera on Thursday that Biden, a practicing Roman Catholic, and the Democrats were “against the Bible” and claimed that the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee was against God is “. “
The Biden campaign hit Trump in response to his photo in front of St. John’s Church amid protests of police brutality and as the Republican president tries to shake up his evangelical base.
“Joe Biden’s faith is at the core of who he is; he has lived it with dignity all his life, and it has been a source of strength and comfort in times of extreme hardship,” Biden spokesman Andrew Bates told Fox News.
“Donald Trump is the only president in our history who has teared up peaceful Americans and thrown a priest out of their church just so he could dedicate it – and a Bible – to his own cynical optics when he visited our nation. to tear apart in a moment of crisis and pain. “
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The battle between the two comes when a Catholic group Biden publicly criticized for his silence on the “emerging climate of anti-Catholicism throughout the country” and his failure to address the issue at the national stage.
Huckabee praised Trump for being a ‘champion of religious freedom’, and contrasted with Biden, whom he called ‘a left-wing champion’.
Huckabee later dealt with a recent op-ed published on Politico with the headline “Could these Evangelical Democrats change the party?” The column suggests that religious voters “are appalled by Trump and hope to pull their fellow Christians away from the GOP,” a sentiment that Huckabee called “desirable thinking on the part of the media.”
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“I read that and thought ‘this is desirable thinking on the part of the media,'” he said. “This is where leftists try to make this idea that Joe Biden appeals to people of faith in one way or another. That’s complete nonsense. I know no one, people of faith, who think Joe Biden is a great choice. is.
“Well, sorry,” Huckabee acknowledged, “some of them are not happy with everything Donald Trump says as tweets, but I tell you, they will not participate with Biden. That is not an option.”
Fox News’ Caleb Parke contributed to this report.
