Huckabee reassures evangelicals about Trump

WASHINGTON (AP) – Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee is reassuring evangelicals that Donald Trump shares their beliefs.

Huckabee is speaking before Trump at the American Renewal Project’s Pastors and Pews event. It’s a gathering of evangelical pastors and church leaders in Orlando, Florida.

Huckabee, an ordained Southern Baptist minister, says he gets asked whether Trump is “one of us.” He says Trump may not sit in the front of a church every Sunday or be loud about his faith. But Huckabee says just because “some people will eat their soup a little louder than others” doesn’t make the soup taste better.

Huckabee says he wouldn’t be supporting Trump if Trump didn’t oppose abortion.

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