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Craig Nagy, a bakery owner who wore a T-shirt that read "JESUS IS MY SAVIOR TRUMP IS MY PRESIDENT," said, "God knows what we need." And not long after a song by the Michigan native Kid Rock blared through the arena bragged of being an "American Badass," a man in Army fatigues knelt, raised the holy book in the air and prayed for Trump's safety. "Because God's got a plan," said Tim Long, who said he is also a candidate for Wayne County commissioner.
"God is giving the American people a choice." That many Trump supporters attribute his survival of what authorities say appeared to be a second assassination attempt to the divine marks a new fervor taking hold in the final weeks of the election — and a digging in of his base, framing the election in stark and apocalyptic terms. Craig Nagy, a bakery owner who wore a T-shirt that read "JESUS IS MY SAVIOR TRUMP IS MY PRESIDENT," at a town hall with former President Donald Trump in Flint, Michigan, on Sept.
17, 2024. | Adam Wren/POLITICO Cheryl Loucks, a retired nurse from Metamora, wore a shirt with an image of Trump rising from the stage in Butler, Pennsylvania, after the first assassination attempt, that said it plainly, quoting Isaiah 54:17: "NO WEAPON FORGED AGAINST ME SHALL PROSPER." "The Lord is watching out for him," she said.
Trump helped stoke the religious fervor, saying "2016 we had a lot of spirit. In 2020 we had unbelievable spirit and then we got let down because what happened should never have been allowed to happen in this country again. But I have never seen the spirit like I've seen right now for this race.
Never." The event was a town hall with Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Trump's former White House press secretary.
She, too, felt that God had her former boss in mind. "You know the left has tried everything they can think of. They've tried to impeach this president.
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