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Reed’s Digest

A wide-ranging interview with Ralph Reed, the religious leader and lobbyist, about the Republican politics of abortion, the evolution of the Israel issue, and why evangelicals are all in on Donald Trump.

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Even though abortion has become a mobilizing issue for Democrats, Ralph Reed told me that he believes the pro-choice backlash is a “sugar high” that will eventually crash. Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images
Tina Nguyen
May 30, 2024

Ralph Reed has long been one of the more polarizing figures in American politics. As the first executive director of Pat Robertson’s Christian Coalition in the 1990s, he worked on converting the tens of millions of people who were swept up in the exploding televangelist movement into reliable Republican voters. Later, he was born again as a political consultant and lobbyist. His political advocacy group, Faith and Freedom Coalition, has said it plans to spend $62 million on evangelical voter turnout for the November election.