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Will Evangelicals Stay With Donald Trump if Tapes Show Him Racist? Bishop Harry Jackson Responds

By Maverick Russel Flores, CP Contributor
Journalists watch Democratic U.S. presidential candidates Hillary Clinton (L) and Senator Bernie Sanders debate on video screens in the media filing center during a debate hosted by CNN and New York One at the Brooklyn Navy Yard in New York April 14, 2016.
Journalists watch Democratic U.S. presidential candidates Hillary Clinton (L) and Senator Bernie Sanders debate on video screens in the media filing center during a debate hosted by CNN and New York One at the Brooklyn Navy Yard in New York April 14, 2016. | (Photo: REUTERS/Brian Snyder)

Yet even as some leading evangelicals withdraw their support for Trump — perhaps most notably theologian Wayne Grudemwho had previously argued that the Republican nominee amounted to a "morally good choice" — others are opting to vote based on the policies not the candidates themselves.

"I think that evangelicals for a long time have realized that we're not going to get the perfect blend of character and public policy," said Bishop Harry Jackson Jr., founder and president of the High Impact Leadership Coalition and senior pastor of Hope Christian Fellowship in Beltsville, Maryland, in a Tuesday phone interview with The Christian Post.

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