If more Christians and gun owners voted, Republicans never would lose an election, former President Donald Trump said Wednesday at a campaign event in battleground Georgia focused on faith and religious freedom.
“I think we’ve really energized a lot of [Christians] this time because they’ve seen how bad it is,” Trump told the crowd at a church in Zebulon, Georgia.
“These last four years … it’s been a horror show, an absolute horror show,” the former president said of the Biden-Harris administration. “And I think, I think we’re going to see those numbers [of Christians voting] go way up.”
He will fix corrupt government agencies and turn things around if he defeats Vice President Kamala Harris and regains the White House in the Nov. 5 election, Trump told the crowd.
Harris became Democrats’ official presidential nominee in August after President Joe Biden dropped out of the race in July amid questions about his failing mental abilities.
Trump’s “Believers and Ballots” town hall was moderated by Georgia Lt. Gov. Burt Jones, a fellow Republican.
Trump has campaigned in Savannah and Atlanta but this was his first stop in central Georgia this election cycle.
In the 2020 election, Biden defeated Trump by only 0.2% of the vote in Georgia, a result that Trump unsuccessfully contested, among others.
Trump answered voters’ questions and outlined his plans for a second term at the town hall-style event.
The former president again attributed his survival of an assassination attempt at a July 13 campaign rally n Butler, Pennsylvania, to an act of God.
Trump said the nation’s biggest problem is the southern border, where he said Biden and Harris ended his strict immigration policies, the result of which was to “allow murderers into our country.”
Illegal aliens have surged to the border since 2021 as other nations “empty out their prisons from all over the world,” Trump said.
Jones thanked Trump for starting a GoFundMe page that raised over $7 million in less than a week after Hurricane Helene hit to help victims of the storm in Georgia and elsewhere.
A record number of early voters are going to the polls in Georgia and other states, according to news reports.
“We want to make it too big to rig, right?” Trump said of the election and fears of voter fraud.
Trump also touched on Israel and the ongoing turmoil in the Middle East.
“We’re going to do a lot for Israel and we’re behind them,” Trump said of the Jewish state’s war with Hamas since the terrorist organization that governs the Gaza Strip went on a rampage of rape, torture, and murder in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.
“And the big thing, we want to have peace in the Middle East,” Trump said.
“We want to have Russia stop with Ukraine,” he added of the Russian invasion of the former Soviet republic in February 2022 and ensuing war. “We’re going to get that done.”
Trump also said he has a simple solution to inflation once he returns to the White House.
“We’re going to drill, baby, drill, and that’s going to bring [the prices of] everything down,” Trump said, referring to the economy’s need for more oil, natural gas, and other domestic sources of less expensive energy.
“That’s going to … bring everything down, because it’s such a big component of the fabric of our life,” he said.
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