{"id":80729,"date":"2026-10-31T07:54:50","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T12:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/31\/this-rightwing-evangelical-was-one-of-trumps-biggest-backers-why-isnt-he-talking-about-the-midterms\/"},"modified":"2026-10-31T07:54:50","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T12:54:50","slug":"this-rightwing-evangelical-was-one-of-trumps-biggest-backers-why-isnt-he-talking-about-the-midterms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/31\/this-rightwing-evangelical-was-one-of-trumps-biggest-backers-why-isnt-he-talking-about-the-midterms\/","title":{"rendered":"This rightwing evangelical was one of Trump\u2019s biggest backers. Why isn\u2019t he talking about the midterms?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lance Wallnau has gathered supporters to talk about Charlie Kirk and school boards \u2013 with no mention of GOP<\/p>\n<p>One of Donald Trump\u2019s 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 \u2013 including emulating El Salvador and Poland, finding a successor for Charlie Kirk and even focusing on their own diets.<\/p>\n<p>At the \u201cAs One\u201d weekend for paying \u201cpartners\u201d 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\u2019s prison system, school boards and the movement\u2019s future. The midterms, then little more than three weeks away, were not mentioned once.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/oct\/31\/lance-wallnau-donald-trump-evangelicals\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lance Wallnau has gathered supporters to talk about Charlie Kirk and school boards \u2013 with no mention of GOP One of Donald Trump\u2019s 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 \u2013 including emulating El Salvador &#8230; <a title=\"This rightwing evangelical was one of Trump\u2019s biggest backers. Why isn\u2019t he talking about the midterms?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/31\/this-rightwing-evangelical-was-one-of-trumps-biggest-backers-why-isnt-he-talking-about-the-midterms\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about This rightwing evangelical was one of Trump\u2019s biggest backers. Why isn\u2019t he talking about the midterms?\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}