will today, ralph reed, chairman of the fete and freedom coalition, was asked by the washington postls reconcile their faith with the former president's behavior character does matter and canada and individual voters will make those assessments but i think that the idea that either voters of faith or all voters just qualify someone because of moral failings in the past is just out of step with hd, the american people are the russell moore is editor-in-chief of christianity today character matters is what he said after the new york verdict and what ralph reed was reacting to in his answer the russell, it's good to have you on the program. ralph reed went on to say that voters make a nuance differentiation between private character and public character. and he said, i'm not voting for this person to be my daughter's husband or to be my pastor. does that argument is an argument you accept? is there a difference between private and public character with mr. trump? or should there be that's not an argument that i accept and it's not an argument that we as have angelico christians have mad

offering a word of thanks to a leader in ralph reed.ause] and the many men and women who give tirelessly to the cause of freedom, to the cause faith and the cause of family. in this moment we need those who are willing to give maximum on all three and that's what the faith and freedom coalitionas presidentn said, freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. freedom, you stay extinction. collectively we say thank you for your service, but the re s cannot, nor should we pect this coalition and its members engage in this fight alone. play in this great struggle to government in support fense of our families. we are a sacred duty and obligation in scripture to fight in this effort. the book of romans is a christian call to action, it is a letter from call to be in every way youan someone who lives in the abundant life leaves the past life and ways behind. in romans that talks about how we should engage in the public square. in romans 8:19 paul describes creation waitseae children of god to be revealed. up and speak up for

r and chairman of the faith and freedom coalition, ralph reed. ♪ >> good morning, faith and freedom!eady for road to majority? [cheers and applause] the best lineup ofamerican poli. we heard from ted cruz and lindsey graham and tim scott. we would haveha blackburn from tennessee. [applause] but she showed up, she knew thaad wouldn't give up the stage, athat she knew woul'e up the stage and she had a plane to catch. [laughter] if you are after ted, you will have to wait a while. but don't we love these champions for our values? and we haveí+ got a great lineup for you this morning. including the onl carson. [applause] the life of our country, senator james lankford, one of the great for life and family, he will be out here in a minute. i just want you to know that what thisonference is about, is not just the excitement and the enthusiasm that we will have as a result of an extraordinary lineup of speakers, including tomorrow afternoon, the 45th and soon to. [cheers and applause] it's not really just ultimately about that. it is the nuts and bolts that when we leave here, when we rolle

event was hosted by the faith and freedom coalition, a group founded by leading evangelical voice ralph reed. >> here's what reid had to say about donald trump's upcoming debate performance i was with the president, meaning trump former president trump yesterday, he was at our faith and freedom conference, disguise in the zone he's ready and by the way, i expect you biden to be ready. oh, for more now we're joined by thomas gift, director of the center on us politics at university college london. thank you so much for joining us. thomas, which trump do you expect to see when we were considering in that report whether it be the bombastic trump or the the, presidential trump, as we can call it well, it's great to be with you, max. >> thanks so much for having me. i'm more expect the bombastic that trump simply because that's a trump. all americans are used to. i think a lot of his campaign strategist want him to show up presidential side, but one thing that we've team from trump is that he just can't help himself. he loves the limelight. he loves coming out hard and being an attack dog. and i

founder of the faith and freedom coalition at ralph reed and 2025 campaign surrogate kevin wallingfordenjoying the air conditioning. [applause] so by glad to have you with us. let's start here. there weren't some democrats who are worried about what president biden has to do he shows up on thursday at the cnn presidential debate. >> if biden goes out there and messes up, it is game over. i've he walks out there in a week later he's lower in the polls it's panic and the party. >> francesca if he shows up and has a good knife that could be a huge boost too. >> the biden campaign is already saying they do not expect there to be a major jump in the polls or in fact really at all in the near term for it they see this more as an opportunity to organize and get their support is engaged in this election. they are saying in a memo just this morning again when you have these two candidates who have already been a well defined they are the same two candidates who ran a last time much of the electorate is already locked in and it is a small group of voters were going to ultimately decide the selec

fairman founder of the faith and freedom coalition ralph reed and kevin walling.air condition. so glad to have you with us. there are warnings from democrats who are worried about what president biden will do when he shows up on thursday. here's jones. >> if biden goes out and messes up, it's game over. if he walks out there and a week later he is lower in the polls, it's panic in the party. >> if he shows up and has a good night that could be a huge boost. >> the biden campaign, shannon, is saying they don't expect there to be a major jump in the polls or really at all in the near term. they see this as more of an opportunity to organize and get their supporters engaged in this election and indeed, they are staying in a memo this morning again that when you have these two candidates who have already been well defined through the same two candidates who ran last time that much of the electorate is already locked in and it is a small group of voters who were going to ultimately decide the selection. >> we know that the debate prep is different for these two as well

. >> he was introduced by ralph reed, who leads the faith and freedom coalition. >> and he mentionedt this is actually trump's ninth time addressing this row two majority conference. >> he thanked him for keeping his promises to evangelicals during his presidency that seemed to be a reference to the three supreme court justices that trump appointed that ultimately led to the reversal of roe versus wade. this is an important group and this former president knows this he said, millions this group will be responsible for turning out the vote of millions of christians across the country. he also notably rattled out a series of early voting dates in different states that is really a departure from when he casts doubt on the mechanism of early voting before he told people in this crowd that they should vote early if, if they will, as a way to compete with democrats. >> we also know that the debate is on the former president's mine. >> listen to what he told his crowd nobody is going to be watching the debate on thursday night, right? >> no nobody will anybody be watching so, we know that,

there's not as great of a friend as ralph reed. an amazing man of god.ase let ralph and joann know how much you love them. [cheering and applauding] and never use time i do it goes off for me. so first off america was not accident. america is great because of the principles and foundations it was found on the foundations the bible declares in psalm chapter 11 first three what shall the righteous do? the foundation to be destroyed but i believe this is a little bit i've heardh peopleot going to let those foundations be is not the time to be weary are give up onhis is the time the bible commands us doing all that we can we stand. that means after he won the battle and that the victory getnd fight another one. i don't know who's ready for a fight but'm ready for a victory. [cheering and i met president trump 24 years ago. i received a phone call out of the blue, he's been listening and watching regularly got him a line and he said thismr began verbatim the value of vision and he said you have i said we call that the anointing. [laughter] that was our hello.

love working with ralph reeds vision. it's been phenomenal. what a great day so far.ot to hear from great speakers. the best is yet to come. yet to come.i'm looking forward to it. anyway. if i could introduce our next speaker. i was reading an article about him. i want to make sure i get the headline right. i will pull my phone out and make i get the headline right. it was a liberal new york reporter who was writing about mark robinson. he said, mark robinson is mag because -- maca's great black hope. the ask accomplishment but man he's mad. my response to this reporter is man, i'm a mad to. and the american people are pretty mad. if you are looking around, if ything that's going on, if you watch the news for 15 minutes, you are upset about what's going on. i think we need somebody like jerry like was talking about. god give us david where he walked out and he saw all theldiers and his brother sitting on the sidelines. he said, who is this uncircumcised philistine? goden and women and young people who will stand up for these reprobates. who are they to try to take our

should i is ralph reed, who is the chairman of the faith and freedom coalition, where we just solve 4rump speaking over the weekend and it's great to have you because i just from your perspective, we've been talking from the political aspect of what voters want to see, what they want to see when it comes to evangelicals and seeing donald trump on debate stage tonight. do you want to see him call for a national abortion ban? what are you hoping? he says about that on stage? >> well, we support both federal and state protection for the innocent unborn. i mean, our position is that an unborn child is a member of the human family and it has a right to life that cannot and should not be infringed. we also thank caitlin and this is in the republican party platform and has been for over 40 years that aid unborn child is protected under the 14th amendment's guarantee that no person can be denied or infringed life or liberty without due process of law that's our position. it's in the party platform. now. we've had dobbs decision two years ago, almost. well, this week week. so that's changed ev

ralph reed, the e f the faith and freedom coalition is quoted in a cnn piece saying he president and does not believe his position is at odds with the faith voters. "the president's position reflects the short-term political reality for both sides. neither side has the vote to pass federal legislation tt ects their values and aspirations. the long-term political reality is whoever wins the battle at the state level will build the momentum and gain the votes to achieve what they want at the federal level." you want a band at the federal level or not? do you want abortion rights enshrined at the federalthat is our conversation this ing in the first hour. jody in tennessee, independent. caller: i am jody, good morning. i just want to remind you all that the democrats and the are complicit in this mess. this has been my number one issue for the last 30 years and the democrats have done. we had a super majority in the senate under obama and we had the house under obama and we had obama and he felt it more prudent to bailout banks that it was to protect women. this is just a wedge issue to