LYNCHBURG, Virginia (AP) – Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has sought to appeal to evangelical voters, addressing the student convocation at Virginia’s Liberty University on Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
Trump vowed to protect Christianity if he’s elected president and quoted a Bible verse. But he drew chuckles from students when he introduced the verse as coming from “Two Corinthians” instead of “Second Corinthians.”
In his only reference to the slain civil rights leader, Trump congratulated himself for drawing a record crowd to Liberty and said he was dedicating the record to King.
Trump received a glowing introduction by school president Jerry Falwell Jr., who said, “In my opinion, Donald Trump lives a life of loving and helping others, as Jesus taught in the great commandment.”
