Article 79E5V This rightwing evangelical was one of Trump’s biggest backers. Why isn’t he talking about the midterms?

This rightwing evangelical was one of Trump’s biggest backers. Why isn’t he talking about the midterms?

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Elle Hardy in Dallas, Texas
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Lance Wallnau has gathered supporters to talk about Charlie Kirk and school boards - with no mention of GOP

One of Donald Trump's most influential Christian nationalist backers has privately shied away from rallying supporters for the Republican party before the midterms, instead urging them to focus their attention elsewhere - including emulating El Salvador and Poland, finding a successor for Charlie Kirk and even focusing on their own diets.

At the As One" weekend for paying partners" in the Dallas-Fort Worth area earlier this month, Lance Wallnau, one of the first prominent rightwing evangelicals to back Trump in 2015, spoke across three sessions about the virtues of El Salvador's prison system, school boards and the movement's future. The midterms, then little more than three weeks away, were not mentioned once.

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