Trump Calls on Evangelicals to Vote For Him So He Can Get Into Heaven

Speaking at Orlando at a “Pastors in the Pews” meeting, in which his one task was to convince evangelicals to support him in the election in the way they failed to do for Mitt Romney, Donald Trump made this rather compelling argument:

“For evangelicals, for the Christians, for the everybody, for everybody of religion, this will be, may be, the most important election that our country has ever had…And once I get in, I will do my thing that I do very well. And I figure it is probably, maybe the only way I’m going to get to heaven. So I better do a good job.”

Let’s boil that argument down to its essentials: Trump is telling a group of pastors that he has spent his life being a bad person who deserves to go to hell, but that they should elect him to the most important office in the land so he can redeem himself. Because that’s how we should choose a president—by looking at which horrible person really deserves a shot to alter a lifelong pattern of terrible behavior.

Here’s some other weird stuff Trump said at the meeting. On Utah:

“I’m having a tremendous problem in Utah. Utah is a different place. Is anybody here from Utah? I didn’t think so. We’re having a problem. I mean because, you know, it could cost us the Supreme Court.”