Semantics Relevance

The Church of Trump: How He's Infusing Christianity Into His Movement

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Narrative Analysis - Report

Key Focus

  • "He's still surviving even though all these people are coming after him, and I don't know how else to explain that other than divine intervention.". . For some of Mr. Trump's supporters, the political attacks and legal peril he faces are nothing short of biblical. ...
  • Trump's ability to turn his supporters'passion into piety is crucial to understanding how he remains the undisputed Republican leader despite guiding his party to repeated political failures and while facing dozens of felony charges in four criminal cases. ...

    • No momentum supporting factor found

    Challenge supporting factors

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    • Work-in-progress supporting factors

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  • (trump,republican,forty-eight)
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    • Time PeriodChallengeMomentumWIP
    Report31.53 0.00 68.48

    High Level Abstraction (HLA) combined

    High Level Abstraction (HLA)Report
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    (10) (trump,supporters,reverent)49.67
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    (12) (trump,supporters,republican_national_committee)49.22
    (13) (trump,supporters,republican)49.00
    (14) (trump,republican,rank-and-file)48.78
    (15) (trump,supporters,rank-and-file)48.55
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    (17) (trump,supporters,president_biden)48.11
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    (19) (trump,supporters,politics)47.22
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    (21) (trump,republican,criminal)46.77
    (22) (trump,supporters,criminal)46.55
    (23) (trump,republican,congress)46.33
    (24) (trump,supporters,congress)46.10
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    (26) (trump,supporters,american)45.66
    (27) (trump,republican,presidential)44.54
    (28) (trump,republican,new_york_times)44.32
    (29) (trump,republican,forty-eight)44.10
    (30) (trump,republican,evangelical)43.65
    (31) (trump,republican,candidates)43.43
    (32) (trump,president,veered)43.21
    (33) (trump,christianity)42.98
    (34) (trump,president,spook)42.76
    (35) (trump,president,southern_baptist_convention)42.54
    (36) (trump,jesus,representative_marjorie_taylor_greene)42.32
    (37) (trump,president,representative_marjorie_taylor_greene)42.09
    (38) (trump,american)42.09
    (39) (trump,president,re-election)41.65
    (40) (trump,president,public-policy)41.43
    (41) (trump,jesus,on_saturday)41.20
    (42) (trump,president,on_saturday)40.98
    (43) (trump,president,jesus)40.53
    (44) (trump,jesus,governments)40.09
    (45) (trump,president,governments)39.64
    (46) (trump,jesus,georgia_republican)39.20
    (47) (trump,president,georgia_republican)38.75
    (48) (evangelical,supreme_court)35.63
    (49) (trump,evangelical,supreme_court)34.97
    (50) (evangelical,services)34.74
    (51) (god,trump,political)33.41
    (52) (trump,evangelical,school)33.18
    (53) (evangelical,rights)32.96
    (54) (trump,evangelical,rights)32.29
    (55) (trump,evangelical,religious)31.40
    (56) (trump,evangelical,professor)30.96
    (57) (trump,evangelical,policy)29.62
    (58) (trump,evangelical,pennsylvania)29.40
    (59) (trump,evangelical,messiah_university)29.18
    (60) (god,prosecutions)28.73
    (61) (god,trump,prosecutions)28.06
    (62) (trump,political,runner)26.95
    (63) (trump,political,restaurant)26.73
    (64) (trump,political,jesus)26.50
    (65) (trump,political,food)26.28
    (66) (trump,political,crucified)26.06
    (67) (trump,political,conway)25.84
    (68) (trump,jesus,video)25.61
    (69) (trump,country,proclaims)25.39
    (70) (trump,jesus,proclaims)25.17
    (71) (trump,jesus,courtroom-style)24.94
    (72) (trump,jesus,country)24.50
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    (74) (trump,country,video)23.61
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    (77) (trump,country,exerted)22.94
    (78) (trump,country,courtroom-style)22.72
    (79) (trump,country,christians)22.49
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    (84) (god,trump,warning)20.04
    (85) (god,warning)19.60
    (86) (god,preachers)19.38
    (87) (god,trump,preachers)18.71
    (88) (god,portraying)18.49
    (89) (god,trump,portraying)17.82
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    (91) (god,persecutions)16.26
    (92) (god,trump,persecutions)15.59
    (93) (god,trump,godlike)15.37
    (94) (god,trump,altar-call)15.14
    (95) (god,washington)14.48
    (96) (god,trumpian)14.25
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    (98) (god,old_testament)13.81
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    Supporting narratives:

    Please refer to knowledge diagram for a complete set of supporting narratives.

    • challenge - Back to HLA
      • Trump's ability to turn his supporters'passion into piety is crucial to understanding how he remains the undisputed Republican leader despite guiding his party to repeated political failures and while facing dozens of felony charges in four criminal cases. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (trump,republican,political)
        • (trump,republican,criminal)
        • (trump,supporters,political)
        • (trump,political,criminal)
        • (trump,supporters,criminal)

    • challenge - Back to HLA
      • "He's still surviving even though all these people are coming after him, and I don't know how else to explain that other than divine intervention.". . For some of Mr. Trump's supporters, the political attacks and legal peril he faces are nothing short of biblical. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (trump,supporters,attacks)
        • (trump,supporters,political)

    • challenge - Back to HLA
      • His insistence on absolute devotion and fealty can be seen at every level of the party, from Congress to the Republican National Committee to rank-and-file voters.. . Mr. Trump's ability to turn his supporters'passion into piety is crucial to understanding how he remains the undisputed Republican leader despite guiding his party to repeated political failures and while facing dozens of felony charges in four criminal cases ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (trump,supporters,republican_national_committee)
        • (trump,supporters,rank-and-file)
        • (trump,republican,republican_national_committee)
        • (trump,supporters,republican)
        • (trump,republican,rank-and-file)
        • (trump,republican,congress)
        • (trump,supporters,congress)

    • challenge - Back to HLA
      • Last year, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Georgia Republican and a close Trump ally, said both the former president and Jesus had been arrested by "radical, corrupt governments." On Saturday, Mr ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (trump,jesus,representative_marjorie_taylor_greene)
        • (trump,president,representative_marjorie_taylor_greene)
        • (trump,jesus,georgia_republican)
        • (trump,president,georgia_republican)
        • Inferred entity relationships (2)
        • (jesus,trump,video) [inferred]
        • (president,trump,veered) [inferred]

    • challenge - Back to HLA
      • Biden, pointed to an increasingly aggressive online presence from the president's re-election campaign, which has sought to portray Mr. Trump as prone to religious extremism. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (president,religious)
        • (trump,president,re-election)
        • (trump,president,campaign)
        • (president,campaign,religious)
        • Inferred entity relationships (8)
        • (president,trump,veered) [inferred]
        • (campaign,president,trump) [inferred]
        • (president,religious) [inferred]
        • (campaign,president,religious) [inferred]
        • (campaign,president,presidential) [inferred]
        • (president,re-election) [inferred]
        • (campaign,president,republican) [inferred]
        • (campaign,president,re-election) [inferred]

    • challenge - Back to HLA
      • Last year, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Georgia Republican and a close Trump ally, said both the former president and Jesus had been arrested by "radical, corrupt governments." On Saturday, Mr. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (trump,jesus,governments)
        • (trump,jesus,arrested)
        • (trump,president,jesus)
        • (trump,president,on_saturday)
        • (trump,president,governments)
        • (trump,jesus,on_saturday)
        • Inferred entity relationships (2)
        • (jesus,trump,video) [inferred]
        • (president,trump,veered) [inferred]

    • challenge - Back to HLA
      • Trump's audience is his congregation, and the former president their pastor as he delivers a roughly 15-minute finale that evokes an evangelical altar call, the emotional tradition that concludes some Christian services in which attendees come forward to commit to their savior. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (president,christian)
        • (evangelical,services)
        • (trump,evangelical,services)
        • Inferred entity relationships (2)
        • (evangelical,services,trump) [inferred]
        • (evangelical,services) [inferred]

    • challenge - Back to HLA
      • . 'Does he really care about evangelicals. I don't know.'. Mr. Trump's braiding of politics and religion is hardly a new phenomenon. Christianity has long exerted a strong influence on American government, with most voters identifying as Christians even as the country grows more secular ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (trump,politics)

    • challenge - Back to HLA
      • I don't know.'. Mr. Trump's braiding of politics and religion is hardly a new phenomenon. Christianity has long exerted a strong influence on American government, with most voters identifying as Christians even as the country grows more secular ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (trump,christianity)

    • challenge - Back to HLA
      • Trump's braiding of politics and religion is hardly a new phenomenon. Christianity has long exerted a strong influence on American government, with most voters identifying as Christians even as the country grows more secular ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (trump,american)

    • challenge - Back to HLA
      • His success at portraying those prosecutions as persecutions - and warning, without merit, that his followers could be targeted next - has fueled enthusiasm for his candidacy and placed him, once again, in a position to capture the White House.. . . 'He's definitely been chosen by God'. Mr. Trump has long defied conventional wisdom as an unlikely but irrefutable evangelical hero ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (god,white_house)
        • (god,trump,white_house)
        • Inferred entity relationships (1)
        • (god,trump,warning) [inferred]

    • challenge - Back to HLA
      • Gavin Newsom of California, a top Democratic ally of Mr. Biden, pointed to an increasingly aggressive online presence from the president's re-election campaign, which has sought to portray Mr. Trump as prone to religious extremism. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (president,re-election)
        • (president,campaign,re-election)
        • Inferred entity relationships (6)
        • (president,re-election,trump) [inferred]
        • (campaign,president,religious) [inferred]
        • (campaign,president,presidential) [inferred]
        • (president,re-election) [inferred]
        • (campaign,president,republican) [inferred]
        • (campaign,president,trump) [inferred]

    • challenge - Back to HLA
      • . "Trump has split the atom between character and policy," Mr. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (evangelical,policy)
        • Inferred entity relationships (1)
        • (evangelical,policy,trump) [inferred]

    • challenge - Back to HLA
      • Trump the nation's first major politician to successfully separate character from policy for religious voters, said John Fea, a history professor at Messiah University, an evangelical school in Pennsylvania.. . "Trump has split the atom between character and policy," Mr. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (evangelical,split)
        • (evangelical,school)
        • Inferred entity relationships (1)
        • (evangelical,school,trump) [inferred]

    • challenge - Back to HLA
      • Trump the nation's first major politician to successfully separate character from policy for religious voters, said John Fea, a history professor at Messiah University, an evangelical school in Pennsylvania.. . "Trump has split the atom between character and policy," Mr ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (evangelical,professor)
        • Inferred entity relationships (1)
        • (evangelical,professor,trump) [inferred]

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • Mr. Trump's tone turns reverent and somber, prompting some supporters to bow their heads or close their eyes. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (trump,supporters,reverent)

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • Trump's solid and devoted core of voters has formed one of the most durable forces in American politics, giving him a clear advantage over President Biden when it comes to inspiring supporters. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (trump,supporters,politics)
        • (trump,supporters,president_biden)
        • (trump,political,president_biden)
        • (trump,politics)
        • (trump,political,politics)
        • Inferred entity relationships (1)
        • (politics,trump) [inferred]

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • Trump's solid and devoted core of voters has formed one of the most durable forces in American politics, giving him a clear advantage over President Biden when it comes to inspiring supporters ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (trump,supporters,american)

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • He is also the latest in a long line of Republican presidents and presidential candidates who have prioritized evangelical voters. But many conservative Christian voters believe Mr ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (trump,republican,candidates)
        • (trump,evangelical,presidential)
        • (evangelical,presidential)
        • (evangelical,republican)
        • (trump,republican,presidential)
        • Inferred entity relationships (3)
        • (evangelical,presidential) [inferred]
        • (evangelical,republican,trump) [inferred]
        • (evangelical,presidential,trump) [inferred]

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • Trump becoming the Republican nominee, and 32 percent are satisfied but not enthusiastic with that outcome, according to a recent New York Times/Siena College poll. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (trump,republican,new_york_times)

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • . Forty-eight percent of Republican primary voters are enthusiastic about Mr. Trump becoming the Republican nominee, and 32 percent are satisfied but not enthusiastic with that outcome, according to a recent New York Times/Siena College poll ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (trump,republican,forty-eight)

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • He is also the latest in a long line of Republican presidents and presidential candidates who have prioritized evangelical voters. But many conservative Christian voters believe Mr. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (trump,republican,evangelical)
        • Inferred entity relationships (1)
        • (evangelical,republican) [inferred]

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • Russell Moore, the former president of the Southern Baptist Convention's public-policy arm, said Mr. Trump's rallies had veered into "dangerous territory" with the altar-call closing and opening prayers from preachers describing Mr ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (trump,president,veered)
        • (trump,president,public-policy)
        • (trump,president,southern_baptist_convention)

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • Trump, and the president's advisers see an opportunity to spook moderate swing voters into supporting Mr. Biden by casting Mr. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (trump,president,spook)
        • Inferred entity relationships (1)
        • (president,spook) [inferred]

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • The intensity of the most committed Trump backers has also factored into the former president's campaign decisions, according to two people familiar with internal deliberations. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (trump,president,campaign)
        • Inferred entity relationships (5)
        • (campaign,president,religious) [inferred]
        • (campaign,president,presidential) [inferred]
        • (president,trump,veered) [inferred]
        • (campaign,president,republican) [inferred]
        • (campaign,president,re-election) [inferred]

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • Trump outstripped his predecessors in delivering for them, pointing especially to the conservative majority he installed on the Supreme Court that overturned federal abortion rights. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (trump,evangelical,rights)
        • (trump,evangelical,supreme_court)
        • (trump,rights)
        • (evangelical,supreme_court)
        • (evangelical,rights)
        • Inferred entity relationships (5)
        • (evangelical,rights) [inferred]
        • (rights,trump) [inferred]
        • (evangelical,rights,trump) [inferred]
        • (evangelical,supreme_court) [inferred]
        • (evangelical,supreme_court,trump) [inferred]

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • He has been married three times, has been repeatedly accused of sexual assault, has been convicted of business fraud and has never showed much interest in church services. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (trump,evangelical,services)
        • Inferred entity relationships (1)
        • (evangelical,services) [inferred]

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • Trump the nation's first major politician to successfully separate character from policy for religious voters, said John Fea, a history professor at Messiah University, an evangelical school in Pennsylvania. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (trump,evangelical,professor)
        • (trump,evangelical,messiah_university)
        • (evangelical,religious)
        • (trump,evangelical,pennsylvania)
        • (trump,evangelical,school)
        • (evangelical,policy)
        • Inferred entity relationships (4)
        • (evangelical,professor) [inferred]
        • (evangelical,school) [inferred]
        • (evangelical,religious,trump) [inferred]
        • (evangelical,policy,trump) [inferred]

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • Trump the nation's first major politician to successfully separate character from policy for religious voters, said John Fea, a history professor at Messiah University, an evangelical school in Pennsylvania ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (trump,evangelical,religious)
        • (trump,evangelical,policy)
        • Inferred entity relationships (2)
        • (evangelical,policy) [inferred]
        • (evangelical,religious) [inferred]

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • Last week, days before Easter, he posted on his social media platform an infomercial-style video hawking a $60 Bible that comes with copies of some of the nation's founding documents and the lyrics to Lee Greenwood's song "God Bless the U.S.A.". . But while Mr. Trump is eager to maintain the support of evangelical voters and portray his presidential campaign as a battle for the nation's soul, he has mostly been careful not to speak directly in messianic terms ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (trump,evangelical,presidential)
        • (evangelical,presidential)
        • Inferred entity relationships (2)
        • (evangelical,presidential) [inferred]
        • (evangelical,presidential,trump) [inferred]

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • Trump, and the president's advisers see an opportunity to spook moderate swing voters into supporting Mr. Biden by casting Mr. Trump's movement as a cultlike creation bent on restricting abortion rights and undermining democracy. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (trump,rights)

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • His success at portraying those prosecutions as persecutions - and warning, without merit, that his followers could be targeted next - has fueled enthusiasm for his candidacy and placed him, once again, in a position to capture the White House. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (god,trump,prosecutions)
        • (god,portraying)
        • (god,prosecutions)
        • (god,warning)
        • (god,trump,portraying)
        • (god,trump,persecutions)
        • (god,trump,warning)
        • (trump,prosecutions)
        • (god,persecutions)
        • Inferred entity relationships (8)
        • (prosecutions,trump) [inferred]
        • (god,persecutions,trump) [inferred]
        • (god,trump,white_house) [inferred]
        • (god,portraying) [inferred]
        • (god,portraying,trump) [inferred]
        • (god,persecutions) [inferred]
        • (god,prosecutions,trump) [inferred]
        • (god,prosecutions) [inferred]

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • The Church of Trump: How He's Infusing Christianity Into His Movement. Ending many of his rallies with a churchlike ritual and casting his prosecutions as persecution, the former president is demanding - and receiving - new levels of devotion from Republicans ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (trump,prosecutions)

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • "They've crucified him worse than Jesus," said Andriana Howard, 67, who works as a restaurant food runner in Conway, S.C.. . A political weapon and vulnerability. Mr. Trump's solid and devoted core of voters has formed one of the most durable forces in American politics, giving him a clear advantage over President Biden when it comes to inspiring supporters ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (trump,political,runner)
        • (trump,political,restaurant)
        • (trump,political,food)
        • (trump,political,conway)

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • "They've crucified him worse than Jesus," said Andriana Howard, 67, who works as a restaurant food runner in Conway, S.C.. . A political weapon and vulnerability ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (trump,political,jesus)

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • "They've crucified him worse than Jesus," said Andriana Howard, 67, who works as a restaurant food runner in Conway, S.C. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (trump,political,crucified)

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • On his social media platform in recent months, Mr. Trump has shared a courtroom-style sketch of himself sitting next to Jesus and a video that repeatedly proclaims, "God gave us Trump" to lead the country. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (trump,jesus,video)

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • Trump has shared a courtroom-style sketch of himself sitting next to Jesus and a video that repeatedly proclaims, "God gave us Trump" to lead the country. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (trump,country,proclaims)
        • (trump,jesus,proclaims)
        • (trump,jesus,country)
        • (trump,country,video)
        • Inferred entity relationships (1)
        • (jesus,trump,video) [inferred]

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • On his social media platform in recent months, Mr. Trump has shared a courtroom-style sketch of himself sitting next to Jesus and a video that repeatedly proclaims, "God gave us Trump" to lead the country ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (trump,jesus,courtroom-style)
        • Inferred entity relationships (1)
        • (jesus,trump,video) [inferred]

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • Christianity has long exerted a strong influence on American government, with most voters identifying as Christians even as the country grows more secular ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (trump,country,influence)
        • (trump,country,exerted)
        • (trump,country,american)
        • Inferred entity relationships (1)
        • (country,trump,video) [inferred]

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      • Christianity has long exerted a strong influence on American government, with most voters identifying as Christians even as the country grows more secular. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (trump,country,christians)
        • (trump,country,government)
        • Inferred entity relationships (1)
        • (country,trump,video) [inferred]

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      • Trump has shared a courtroom-style sketch of himself sitting next to Jesus and a video that repeatedly proclaims, "God gave us Trump" to lead the country ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (trump,country,courtroom-style)

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      • Even more than in his past campaigns, he is framing his 2024 bid as a fight for Christianity, telling a convention of Christian broadcasters that "just like in the battles of the past, we still need the hand of our Lord." ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (trump,christianity)

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      • A political weapon and vulnerability. Mr. Trump's solid and devoted core of voters has formed one of the most durable forces in American politics, giving him a clear advantage over President Biden when it comes to inspiring supporters ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (trump,american)

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      • Trump's rallies had veered into "dangerous territory" with the altar-call closing and opening prayers from preachers describing Mr. Trump as heaven-sent.. . "Claiming godlike authority or an endorsement from God for a political candidate means that person cannot be questioned or opposed without also opposing God," Mr ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (god,trump,preachers)
        • (god,trump,altar-call)
        • (god,trump,godlike)
        • (god,preachers)
        • (god,trump,political)
        • Inferred entity relationships (5)
        • (god,trump,warning) [inferred]
        • (god,preachers,trump) [inferred]
        • (god,trump,white_house) [inferred]
        • (god,preachers) [inferred]
        • (god,political) [inferred]

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      • And at a rally in South Carolina in February, Greg Rodermond, a pastor at Crossroads Community Church, prayed for God to intervene against Mr. Trump's political opponents, arguing that they were "trying to steal, kill and destroy our America." ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (god,political)
        • (god,trump,political)
        • Inferred entity relationships (2)
        • (god,political,trump) [inferred]
        • (god,political) [inferred]

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      • "He's definitely been chosen by God," said Marie Zere, a commercial real estate broker from Long Island who attended the Conservative Political Action Conference in February outside Washington, D.C. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (god,washington)

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      • Instead, the Trumpian flock is more likely to describe him as a modern version of Old Testament heroes like Cyrus or David, morally flawed figures handpicked by God to lead profound missions aimed at achieving overdue justice or resisting existential evil. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (god,trumpian)
        • (god,old_testament)

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      • Instead, the Trumpian flock is more likely to describe him as a modern version of Old Testament heroes like Cyrus or David, morally flawed figures handpicked by God to lead profound missions aimed at achieving overdue justice or resisting existential evil.. . "He's definitely been chosen by God," said Marie Zere, a commercial real estate broker from Long Island who attended the Conservative Political Action Conference in February outside Washington, D.C ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (god,overdue)

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      • But as the former president tries to establish himself as the one, true Republican leader, religious overtones have pervaded his third presidential campaign. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (president,overtones)
        • (president,presidential)
        • (president,campaign,republican)
        • (president,campaign,pervaded)
        • (president,pervaded)
        • (president,campaign,overtones)
        • (president,campaign,religious)
        • (president,campaign,presidential)
        • Inferred entity relationships (10)
        • (president,republican) [inferred]
        • (president,presidential) [inferred]
        • (overtones,president) [inferred]
        • (campaign,president,trump) [inferred]
        • (president,religious) [inferred]
        • (campaign,president,religious) [inferred]
        • (campaign,president,presidential) [inferred]
        • (pervaded,president) [inferred]
        • (campaign,president,republican) [inferred]
        • (campaign,president,re-election) [inferred]

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      • Biden's support comes from voters deeply opposed to Mr. Trump, and the president's advisers see an opportunity to spook moderate swing voters into supporting Mr. Biden by casting Mr. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (president,spook)
        • Inferred entity relationships (1)
        • (president,spook,trump) [inferred]

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      • According to Gallup, 68 percent of adults said they were Christian in 2022, down from 91 percent in 1948.. . But as the former president tries to establish himself as the one, true Republican leader, religious overtones have pervaded his third presidential campaign. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (president,republican)
        • (president,religious)

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      • According to Gallup, 68 percent of adults said they were Christian in 2022, down from 91 percent in 1948.. . But as the former president tries to establish himself as the one, true Republican leader, religious overtones have pervaded his third presidential campaign ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (president,christian)

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      • Credit...Maddie McGarvey for The New York Times. . Long known for his improvised and volatile stage performances, former President Donald J. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (evangelical,president_donald)