The Republican
presidential candidate, Donald Trump joked on Thursday that winning the
White House could be his ticket through heaven’s gate.
“I figure it’s probably, maybe the only way I’m going to get to heaven,” he told a group of evangelical pastors in Florida.
In
recent weeks, Trump has been losing a number of key demographics, but
most polls show he is still winning the evangelical vote. An NBC poll
released this week found 71 percent of evangelicals plan to vote for
Trump compared to 22 percent for Hillary Clinton.
Trump
called on the pastors at Thursday’s meeting to help get out the vote,
saying it would be “the most important election that our country’s ever
had” for religious voters.
“So go out and spread the word and once I get in, I will do my thing that I do very well,” he said.
