Trump Says Moved Embassy to Jerusalem 'For the Evangelicals'
President says 'the evangelicals are more excited' by controversial 2018 move 'than Jewish people'
Allison Kaplan Sommer
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U.S. President Donald Trump said Monday that he moved the United States Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem “for the evangelicals,” marveling that “Christians are more excited by that than Jewish people.”
Trump made these remarks during an election campaign rally at an airport in Oshkosh, Wisconsin as he visited Midwestern battleground states, holding campaign events in an effort to counterprogram media coverage of the Democratic National Convention, which took place virtually on the same day
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