Loyalty to the Republican Party is ingrained in the Latter-day Saints religion. But in Arizona, some find the president’s behavior at odds with their values and are shifting to Joe Biden.
For the better part of a century, members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have made their political home under the Republican Party’s tent, motivated by conservative beliefs rooted in the family values, personal liberty and economic frugality of their faith.
Joe Biden, the Democratic presidential nominee, speaks during a campaign event at Carpenters Local Union 1912 in in Phoenix, Arizona, 8 October, 2020.Most church members are still likely to support the president again this year. Still, exit polling from 2016 showed 56 per cent of church members supported Mr Trump, far less than the support he received from members of other faiths.
But Mr Biden doesn’t cause the same reluctance among some Latter-day Saints as Hillary Clinton did. They like his temperament and personality, arguing that the warmth and empathy he displays much more closely mirrors the behaviors that the church demands of its followers than Mr Trump’s grating style.
US President Donald Trump dances on stage after speaking at a campaign rally at the Southern Wisconsin Regional Airport in Janesville.Kirk Adams, a church member who served as chief of staff to Governor Doug Ducey of Arizona, a Republican, and was the former speaker of the state’s House of Representatives, agreed that the motivation would diminish once Judge Amy Coney Barrett was confirmed.
“The institutional norms sort of seem to be dissolving, and there’s a group of Mormon Republicans that loves that; that’s exactly what they want,” Mr Miles, the BYU political scientist, said. “They would be happy to see the federal government not gone away, but really, really weak.” He was suspicious that Mr Trump wasn’t a real conservative and wouldn’t follow through on the policies that he had espoused on the campaign trail. But the president has not disappointed him, Mr Olson said.
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