Then that same social conservative condemns and judges me for transitioning.
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Mike Pence, a strong social conservative, isn't likely to help anymore.
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And Mr. Uribe made a nod to his social conservative backers.
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Trump, otherwise no social conservative, loves to play up these issues.
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That's become the key point in Trump's favor in social conservative circles.
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Carson is a staunch social conservative and advocate for traditional family structures.
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But he is a social conservative who opposes gay marriage and voluntary euthanasia.
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Pence, a social conservative, stepped into a series of controversies over LGBT rights.
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Conservatives have little faith in Justice Anthony Kennedy, especially on social conservative priorities.
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So social conservative groups have expressed nothing but delight with Mr. Trump's nominees.
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She defeated Marshall, a social conservative who has been in office since 1992.
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Robert Pittenger in the primary last year, running as a hard-right social conservative.
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Salvini is not a committed social conservative — in fact, he's a divorced former communist.
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He's also a fiscal and social conservative who unsuccessfully ran for Senate in 22019.
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Video But in the primary, Republicans are appealing to the GOP's social conservative base.
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Consider: Pence is for most purposes a doctrinaire social conservative, business conservative, and neoconservative.
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Not only that, he is also a social conservative with an anti-LGBTQ record.
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Nothing is more entrenched as conventional wisdom — especially among social conservative donors — than this.
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He's also a fiscal and social conservative who unsuccessfully ran for Senate in 2014.
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If you are a social conservative, what we are doing is ripping families apart.
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Not a social conservative Conservative cultural values also have been absent from his stump speeches.
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Influential social conservative leaders such as Penny Nance and Marjorie Dannenfelser are leading the charge.
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Not so long ago, business interests had usually been compatible with the social conservative agenda.
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He's solid in the social conservative circles, he's from the Midwest and he knows Congress.
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But a Supreme Court vacancy may energize turnout among evangelical Christians and other social conservative voters.
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But Santorum's crusade actually marked a revitalization of social conservative worries around pornography — not their end.
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Grass-roots social conservative activists and voters hold tremendous sway in Texas's low-turnout primary elections.
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Most of the "no" campaigning was done by lay social-conservative lobbies, such as the Iona Institute.
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He has many things that Trump lacks, particularly governing experience and strong credentials as a social conservative.
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A social conservative, his anti-abortion, anti-gay stances are deeply at odds with many Americans' views.
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Strange ran against Moore in the Republican primary with Trump's endorsement, but ultimately lost against the social conservative.
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The turbulent period bruised Pence as governor of Indiana, but ultimately did not kill his social conservative credentials.
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As Lawful Evil, Pence would further his agenda by passing laws that follow a coherent social conservative agenda.
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Pence is a staunch social conservative and a devout evangelical Christian who signed a controversial religious freedom law.
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" "If he gets replaced by a hard line social conservative, the democratic leadership will have hell to pay.
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Picking Gorsuch, a very vocal and reliable social conservative, did a lot to rebuild trust among that faction.
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Humphrey is no one's idea of a moderate Republican and in particular is a very vocal social conservative.
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But they've given new ammunition and firepower to social conservative groups who had already feared pornography's impact, Rothman says.
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And in interviews last week, social conservative leaders frequently mentioned lesser-known examples of his attempts to reassure them.
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On reproductive freedom for women, Trump intends to replace Justice Antonin Scalia with a social conservative who opposes Roe.
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He's an anti-abortion social conservative who signed a law this week in Ohio barring state contracts with Planned Parenthood.
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Unlike the President, he's authentically steeped in the social conservative movement and views it as a matter of unwavering principal.
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Kim Bengard, a businesswoman and social conservative activist from California, does not believe that Trump's conversion on abortion is genuine.
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She is a social conservative and economic centrist who as leader would probably prefer yet another coalition with the SPD.
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Mr Murphy, publicly a social conservative, was caught sending text messages to his mistress urging her to have an abortion.
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Bob Marshall, a social conservative, she would be the first transgender woman to win election to a state legislature. 33.
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Last September he unseated the divisive Tony Abbott, a social conservative and ultraroyalist, as the Liberals' leader and prime minister.
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Mr. Bannon backed Roy Moore, an outspoken social conservative, who beat the candidate that Mr. Trump had endorsed, Luther Strange.
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The former owner of regional newspapers and a lawmaker since 2010, Matovic calls himself a social conservative and economic liberal.
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All three have deep ties to the social conservative movement, which Ted Cruz has tried to unite behind his candidacy.
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A devout Catholic, Mr. Cuccinelli made his name nationally more as a social conservative than as an immigration hard-liner.
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Then Pence would ram ahead with a social-conservative agenda on every topic having to do with people having sex.
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Ives's pitch: She's an anti-LGBTQ rights, hard on immigration, anti-abortion social conservative who wants to cut state taxes.
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The lodestars by which we have understood politics such as rightwing, fiscal conservative, social conservative are all going to be overturned.
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"Citing the disproportionately high suicide rates amongst transgender and gender non-conforming individuals, Jackson asked, "where is that same social conservative?
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Emmanuel Macron is untested and lacks the support of an established party; François Fillon is a social conservative tarnished by scandal.
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Homosexuality is still controversial with the older generation, and gay marriage is opposed by politically influential social conservative and Christian groups.
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Liberal legislator Adam Vaughan, who observed the leadership campaign, said Scheer was "a radical extreme social conservative" whom voters would shun.
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It also pits, perhaps shortsightedly, the GOP's asserted desire to improve the business climate in the state against social conservative objectives.
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Mike Pence of Indiana, a social conservative not known for foreign policy experience, supported the war in Iraq and praised Mrs.
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Yet the choice of Mr. Pence, a hard-line social conservative, may expand Mr. Trump's support among the party's Christian base.
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Frank Cannon is the president of American Principles Project, a Washington-based think tank that promotes libertarian and social conservative policies.
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The inexplicable dilemma with H.B. 2 is that it pits those pro-business, limited-government goals versus its social conservative objectives.
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These are the ground troops of the social conservative movement, who have long dreamed of a nation where abortion is illegal.
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That first jab at P.O.W.s persuaded me, a staunch social conservative, that Mr. Trump wasn't qualified for the office he sought.
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In an accompanying statement, Ms. Huckabee offered a validation of Mr. Trump, who used to support abortion rights, as a social conservative.
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A social conservative movement that has lost much of its popular support has looked to Moscow to find new channels to power.
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Mr. Pence, a staunch social conservative, was elected in 2000 to the House of Representatives, where he served in the party leadership.
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Leading social conservative political groups are rallying the anti-abortion grass-roots to support his confirmation with ads, rallies and online campaigns.
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The fourth moral pattern was the classic libertarian archetype: high on liberty, low on the social conservative virtues of authority/loyalty/sanctity.
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We can now see how Republican voters were becoming more secular, making the social conservative piece of the Reagan coalition less important.
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In vying for the Republican nomination in 2008, Romney cast himself as a social conservative, a family man, and a pragmatic businessman.
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Once mocked for his "New York values," Trump is expected to implement arguably the most aggressive social conservative agenda in recent memory.
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Other Republicans, including social-conservative activists and Tea Party-backed lawmakers, have threatened to oust him as speaker during the special session.
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Or, when they did vote, they usually voted on social conservative issues — like abortion, or prayer in schools, or something like that.
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Gillespie wanted to run, and tried to run, as a classic '80s and '90s social conservative, as a George H.W. Bush Republican.
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Cruz picked Smith -- a prominent social conservative leader who is at times at odds with local Republican leaders -- as his Indiana delegate wrangler.
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This issue had been quietly burning for months, with social conservative leaders pressing the White House on why it hadn't made a decision.
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Those supporters could give Cruz the buffer he needs on questions about his social conservative bona fides, similar to how he used Rep.
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Bannon told attendees at the Values Voter Summit, an annual social conservative conference, to keep up the fight against the "imperial" political class.
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Afterward, hundreds of social conservative activists from all parts of the country will quiz the candidate and explain their policy positions to him.
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Perhaps Pence, an extreme social conservative, felt he had to go with the only candidate who opposed allowing rape victims to seek abortions.
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You've got libertarian David Boaz, neoconservative Bill Kristol, social conservative Brent Bozell, reformer Yuval Levin, and whatever it is that Glenn Beck is.
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A social conservative, Mr. Coats was credited with helping develop the compassionate conservative agenda embraced by George W. Bush in the 2000 campaign.
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But the shadow of the country's social conservative past still lingers, and the bill has already been challenged in the country's Constitutional Court.
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The accusations against Mr. Clement could prove embarrassing to Mr. Scheer, a social conservative who has opposed same-sex marriage and abortion rights.
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Fillon, a social conservative who favors free-market reforms and labor market deregulation, had been looking formidable but slumped after the scandal broke.
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Much of the outrage was spurred by social conservative groups, which sent emails to their followers that contained incorrect information about the legislation.
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The Romney campaign picked him to be its foreign policy spokesperson in 2012, but a social conservative backlash ended his tenure very quickly.
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As the Republican candidate for vice president, Pence, a social conservative from a Midwestern state, could help the real estate mogul reassure wary Republicans.
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Mike Pence, a social conservative with views diametrically opposed to what Biden has advocated throughout his career, was moving into the vice president's residence.
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CHRIS MATTHEWS, MSNBC: If he gets replaced by hardline social conservative, the Democratic leadership will have hell to pay, they cannot let this happen.
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"Let's say she did consider an abortion, and a social conservative convinced her how important and 'Godly' it was to keep me," she wrote.
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A staunch social conservative, he focused during his eight years in the Oklahoma State Senate on anti-abortion measures, religious freedom and fiscal responsibility.
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Santorum won a reputation as a strong social conservative in Congress, where he opposed same-sex marriage and the teaching of evolution in schools.
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An admirer of late British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, he is probably the closest thing France has to an economic liberal and social conservative.
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Nevertheless, he has promised to advance the social conservative agenda by appointing anti-abortion judges, and for many religious leaders that is good enough.
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Supporters, including Republican Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick, a staunch social conservative, say the proposed curbs promote public safety and protect vulnerable women and children.
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"If he embraces too much of a social conservative agenda, he'll find there's not enough social conservatives in Canada to win," Mr. Powers said.
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Afterward, hundreds of social conservative activists from all parts of the country planned to quiz the candidate and explain their policy positions to him.
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He was more of a social conservative than Trump, and Trump has more or less avoided the anti-LGBT rhetoric that Moore traffics in.
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If he had picked someone like Amy Coney Barrett, who is a little more of a social conservative, that might not have been the case.
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Luther Strange over Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore, cementing what has already become a high-profile race pitting Republican leadership against an insurgent social conservative.
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Pat Buchanan got 0.4 percent of the popular vote in 2000 running as a strident social conservative, and he was much better known than French.
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I think the social conservative side of our party could really appeal to them and we could really be a help to the Hispanic community.
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She resigned her HHS post last week, replaced temporarily by Valerie Huber, a social conservative who has actively supported abstinence sex education programs in schools.
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Alarmed at Falwell's endorsement, a number of Christian leaders spoke out about Trump's dangerous morals and shifting positions on social conservative issues such as abortion.
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Other former Pence staffers are also part of the network, giving him a foothold into a powerful organization that has so far been on the sidelines of the presidential race this year He is a staunch social conservative A deeply religious man, Pence is a staunch social conservative and devout evangelical Christian who would be a hit at the Republican National Convention next week.
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The Senate battle over Barrett's confirmation would cement trust between the president, social conservative voters and the members who represent them in the House and Senate.
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It'll be interesting to see how social conservative leaders respond to that talking point, given groups like Penny Nance's Concerned Women for America backed the bill.
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MORENA is expected to forge an alliance with a small social conservative party and the leftist workers party to form a new governing coalition in Congress.
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A key to evangelicals Most endearing -- or at least the most valuable -- to the President may be Pence's direct link to the GOP's social conservative wing.
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Social conservative leaders like Bob Vander Plaats, Richard Viguerie, and Tony Perkins rallied to Cruz's side, and state-level Tea Parties broke heavily in his favor.
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Conway's roots are in the social conservative wing of the Republican party; Kushner is socially liberal and has a documented history of donating to Democratic candidates.
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Toward that end, Trump implausibly reinvented himself as a social conservative, giving powerful posts to Southern traditionalists like Jeff Sessions and religious conservatives like Mike Pence.
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Supporters, including Republican Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick, a staunch social conservative, have said the proposed bathroom restrictions promote public safety and protect vulnerable women and children.
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You might expect me, as a social conservative, to argue that this is a good thing because "have less change" is sort of a conservative motif.
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Christie's powerful persona is adept at dismantling Clinton's career and character and, most importantly, he is not a social conservative crusader who alienates moderates and independents.
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But Mr. Trump has also said positive things to associates about Judge Amy Coney Barrett, a staunch social conservative, the people familiar with the process said.
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In addition, their social-conservative male counterparts will certainly test many of the first-term female MPs when it comes to women's and family affairs legislation.
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The other right-wing candidate who is competitive in Sunday's race, the center-right François Fillon, has run as more of a pro-business social conservative.
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In addition to pledging a makeover of France's economy along the lines of what Margaret Thatcher did in Britain, Mr. Fillon is a staunch social conservative.
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The bathroom bill was one of 20 items of business, most of them social conservative priorities that the Legislature failed to pass during the regular session.
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Some groups, though they are a minority within the social conservative movement, have criticized Mr. Trump and congressional Republicans for not pushing harder against Planned Parenthood.
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In other words, these two single organizations spend politically in one year almost as much as all social-conservative organizations combined spent between 2008 and 2014.
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President Ivan Duque, a social conservative who came to power in August 2018, faces widespread discontent over rising unemployment, economic reforms and a deteriorating security situation.
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The social conservative activist group One Million Moms asked the channel to "reconsider" ads featuring same-sex couples, and the group's petition garnered over 30,000 signatures.
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He was a social conservative, and he was wearing it on his sleeve—build a fence, crack down on the illegal immigrants that are here. Man!
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Underlying all of these concerns is a worry that Donald Trump himself is not very personally committed to social conservative issues like abortion and religious liberty.
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If, for example, the CDU selected a candidate for chancellor with too strong a social conservative profile, a more socially progressive voter could support the FDP.
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One of the most influential social conservative groups in the country, the Susan B. Anthony List, has issued a glowing appraisal of President Trump's first 100 days.
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Ives's pitch: She's an anti-LGBTQ rights, tough on immigration, anti-abortion social conservative who wants to cut state taxes and will roll back Rauner's liberal agenda.
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"We have to drop the social conservative stuff and recognize that many of our policies make millennials think we are a party of the past," Siegfried said.
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Foster Friess, the Wyoming social conservative, told CNN earlier this month that while Scott's "leadership is reassuring," he is not investing his dollars in the super PAC.
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If a social conservative runs the House, they will no longer be able to play both sides; they will have to disappoint either Republican activists or business.
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He has drawn controversy throughout his career for his outspoken Christianity and for starring in TV commercials funded by Focus on the Family, a social conservative group.
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"For too long we cowered to the side and were not able to fight back," said Diana Banister, a Republican consultant who works on social conservative causes.
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Bob Vander Plaats is the president and CEO of The Family Leader, a social conservative organization, and a former national co-chair for Ted Cruz for President.
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President Ivan Duque, a social conservative, came to power in August 2018 and now faces widespread discontent over rising unemployment, economic reforms and a deteriorating security situation.
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A 'social conservative' in my view is not a moral authoritarian Evangelical who wants to push people around, but an American gentleman, conservative in a social sense.
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A social Conservative, Mr. Kenney has alienated some Conservative voters with a platform that includes measures like informing parents when high school students join gay-straight alliances.
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The bathroom bill's main backer, Republican Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick, a social conservative who sets the state Senate's legislative agenda, has said economic losses would be inconsequential.
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If you're a social conservative opposed to Trump because you think he's a closet liberal with two wives too many, they may not be your ideal protest vote.
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" More from Swan: "This issue had been quietly burning for months, with social conservative leaders pressing the White House on why it hadn't made a decision on this.
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" Similarly, Michael Maurer, the owner of the Indianapolis Business Journal , who is a Republican but not a hard-line social conservative, said, "It just exploded in his face.
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In Poland, the Law and Justice party, elected in October 2015, is pursuing a radical social conservative agenda, while cracking down on the judiciary and the news media.
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Mr. Joyce, a social conservative who aggressively espoused what he called family values and fought against legalizing same-sex marriage, had been under pressure to resign for weeks.
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Social conservative activists who pushed hard for the change appeared to agree, saying the organization would lose access to $60 million in federal funding under the new rules.
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Just as the evangelical anti-choice movement, white supremacy has long been the projection of social conservative fears about what changes to the traditional family structure will bring.
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Then Tuesday, Bruce Rauner, the deep-pocketed incumbent Republican governor of Illinois, barely eked out a win over state legislator Jean Ives, a social conservative and Trump devotee.
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Bubbling under the surface While they're not talking about it publicly yet, many social conservative leaders want Trump to overturn Obama's 2015 executive order on LGBT workplace discrimination.
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Scheer calls himself a social conservative—he's got a firmly pro-life voting record, doesn't support gay marriage, and has previously voted against human rights protections for transgender people.
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Washington (CNN)Phyllis Schlafly, a prominent anti-feminist and early leader of the social conservative movement, died Monday at the age of 92 at her home in St. Louis.
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Social conservative groups still back the vote to proceed on the bill because the White House has told them they have replacement language ready that solves the parliamentarian's concerns.
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Smith, a member of Indivisible's Austin chapter, isn't exactly a fan of the governor, a strong social conservative who recently revived an anti-trans bathroom bill in the legislature.
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When I asked a senior House GOP official about the adoption tax credit, for example, they pointed me to all the other social conservative measures contained in the bill.
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A win by the social conservative is especially noteworthy because he's been openly opposed to the peace deal with FARC rebels that current President Juan Manuel Santos helped negotiate.
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"At my core, I'm a fiscal and social conservative, but here's what I believe -- I can't run the country by myself, and we have to work together," he said.
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By picking a social conservative to replace Kennedy, Trump would have a reliable 5-4 majority on the Supreme Court, even on some of those hot-button social issues.
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Matovic, a lawmaker since 2010 who is known for publicity stunts, calls himself a social conservative and economic liberal but declines to put political labels on his OLANO party.
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Alternative for Germany (AfD), the German anti-Muslim party, is led by politicians with a strong social conservative background but has moved left on gay rights in recent years.
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"People see in Trump a willingness to take on the enemy — radical Islam," said Steve Scheffler, a longtime social conservative activist in Iowa and a Republican National Committee member.
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Trudeau said on Wednesday he would also raise his concerns about "backsliding" on women's rights in the United States and elsewhere with Pence, a social conservative and opponent of abortion.
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Pence, a staunch social conservative, has a long history of pushing for religious liberty policies that have been assailed by civil liberties groups and praised by conservative and evangelical leaders.
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Casey Cagle and Secretary of State Brian Kemp advanced to a July runoff vote after grueling campaigns that saw the candidates battling over who carried the most social conservative credentials.
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JoDee Winterhof, senior vice president for policy and political affairs at the Human Rights Campaign, said she believed the new ads revealed a sense of desperation among social conservative activists.
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" Graham said that his tour is for Jesus and for supporting candidates that advance the social conservative causes — such as opposition to abortion and gay marriage — many evangelicals want. "Progressive?
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Even if he is not a social conservative, Trump is likely to allow the party's platform to remain strongly anti-abortion when it is written at the Republican National Convention.
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Pence is a social conservative who hews to the Paul Ryan vision of government — low taxes on the rich, free trade and a trimming of the Social Security safety net.
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But it's a standard policy for a Republican president, at this point, and a key ask of the anti-abortion organizations that still hold down the party's social-conservative wing.
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Hoping to win over more traditional Republicans, Trump picked the social conservative Pence over two other finalists, former House of Representatives Speaker Newt Gingrich and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.
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During the campaign Mr. Kenney, a social conservative, didn't remove a candidate who once equated gay men with pedophiles and who claimed that love in same-sex couples wasn't real.
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In June, he opened the mansion to social conservative activists like Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council and representatives of the billionaire kingmakers Charles G. and David H. Koch.
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"We shouldn't be facilitating putting little girls alone in a bathroom w/ grown men," Cruz, who is a social conservative and the father of two young girls, said on Twitter.
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Trump will meet with a select group of Christian leaders early in the morning, and later will hold what is essentially a panel discussion with hundreds of social conservative activists.
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As a legislator, Pence was a strict fiscal and social conservative, eagerly advocating for tax cuts and spending limits, pushing earmark reform and resisting new protections for the LGBT community.
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"Democrats are no more willing than social-conservative Trump supporters to lay down their culture-war objectives and enmities in order to save the constitution from the president," he writes.
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But are we really supposed to believe that a man who's been a very public playboy in the Manhattan social scene for 30-plus years is some kind of social conservative?
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However, a decade later, the social conservative appears to have changed his opinion about sex toys with Cruz branding the sex toy law "stupid" when asked about the social media criticism.
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He rejects wholesale the social conservative campaign to keep transgender people out of the bathrooms they choose, but promises to reward conservative ideologues with a Supreme Court Justice of their liking.
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One social conservative leader who objected to what he called watering down the law, Micah Clark, executive director of the American Family Association of Indiana, campaigned this week with Mr. Cruz.
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The study also helps debunk the social conservative theory that lower marriage rates and higher levels of single parenthood among black Americans are largely responsible for the black-white income gap.
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And Ms. May, a traditional economic and social conservative in many respects, has signaled a desire to give her party a new focus on the need to build a fairer society.
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OTTAWA — Canada's Conservative Party on Saturday chose a 38-year-old social conservative and opponent of carbon taxes to lead its campaign against Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in the next election.
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"This is probably the single-most 'I told you so' moment if you need to go back and smack your 'Never Trump' friends," said Frank Cannon, a veteran social conservative strategist.
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The lieutenant governor, a social conservative firebrand who recently pushed to allow concealed carry in churches, listed off a series of what he called "outside the box" ideas for stopping school shootings.
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Mr. English, a social-conservative activist, worked with Mr. Vander Plaats on a 2010 recall of three State Supreme Court justices who were part of a unanimous decision legalizing same-sex marriage.
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The billionaire businessman got something of a pass last week, since the evangelical and social conservative voters that are disproportionately important in the Hawkeye State were more natural backers of Texas Sen.
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While Trump has sent mixed signals on gay rights issues, he and his operatives stood aside while members of the Republican Platform Committee produced a document affirming hard right social conservative values.
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Mr. Reed's organization is one of a host of social conservative groups that will be spending tens of millions of dollars to identify and turn out voters for Mr. Trump in 2020.
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In Mississippi, where Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith, a Republican, faces a runoff, the social conservative voter mobilization effort is largely absent, a sign they are confident the G.O.P. will hold the seat.
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To many conservative business leaders, today's social-conservative agenda looks anachronistic and is harmful to the bottom line; it makes it hard to hire and keep talented employees who won't tolerate discrimination.
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Yet Pence does form a contrast with the party's other leading fundraisers in one major way: He's a social conservative courting a donor class that largely is not too concerned with culture wars.
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And the state seems to have many anti-Trump social conservative voters who just can't bring themselves to vote for Clinton or Johnson — voters who might see McMullin as a more attractive option.
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"Trump has gone to great lengths to court national leaders in the social-conservative movement and has convinced many of the most prominent ones that he genuinely supports their policy positions," they wrote.
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The signing comes weeks after Vice President Mike Pence, a social conservative who regularly touts his anti-abortion stances, cast the tie-breaking vote in the Senate after two Republicans opposed the measure.
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A hardline social conservative, Pence is so staunchly anti-choice that he signed a law requiring all aborted or miscarried fetuses to be "cremated or interred" (as a way to recognize their personhood).
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His policies as a social conservative and fiscal liberal struck a chord with voters, and when he came to power in 2000, he ended 71 years of rule of the International Revolutionary Party.
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The source also said Bannon planned to speak at the Council on National Policy conference, a gathering of social conservative grassroots leaders about the ground game needed to "defeat elites" in coming races.
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Although there are doubts that Trump himself is a bonafide social conservative, he brings other things to the table that may be critical, not only to Christian voters but also to all Americans.
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But Moore is hardly part of the Breitbart wing of the Republican Party—he's an old-school homophobic social conservative who as a judge refused to grant marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
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During the visit, Trudeau raised his concern about women's rights and "the new anti-choice laws being passed in a number of American states" with Pence, a social conservative and opponent of abortion.
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In recent years, as other West Virginia Democrats switched to the Republican Party, Mr. Manchin has held out, a social conservative who believes in using government's money and might to protect the needy.
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Republicans could start to follow the lead of some paleoconservatives, like Pat Buchanan, in seeing Putin as a kind of ideological ally — a social conservative leading the fight against godlessness and secular values.
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By being "behind the times" in some ways and more up-the-minute in others, the island's experience suggests possibilities outside the normal lines of feminist-versus-social conservative, right-versus-left debate.
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Pro-family social conservative organizations, by contrast, have continued to do politics as usual, investing most resources in pastor organizing, voter guides, voter-registration efforts, referendum efforts, policy papers, and earned media appearances.
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"Attorney General Barr represents an important conservative point of view that is really the heart of the Trump presidency," said Frank Cannon, the president of the American Principles Project, a social conservative organization.
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That echoes complaints about Representative Tim Murphy, Republican of Pennsylvania and a fierce social conservative who was drummed out of office this year after revelations that he suggested his mistress have an abortion.
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Any person that says they are either a fiscal conservative or [a] social conservative and says that we should drug-test food stamp recipients, they're not looking at the facts or the figures.
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If you are a fiscal conservative or social conservative, this evidence and these tangible examples are right in front of our face, and it is time for the Republican Party to wake up.
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As Rubio is quickly becoming the choice of Republican lawmakers on Capitol Hill, he also is methodically trying to position himself as an anti-establishment hero with deep social conservative values -- not unlike Cruz.
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An ardent admirer of Ingres and a social conservative who became rabidly anti-Semitic with age, he resented being called an Impressionist, despite having participated in all but one of the group's groundbreaking exhibitions.
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Neither has French, really; he's served as a lawyer for the libertarian public interest law firm FIRE, for Pat Robertson's American Center for Law and Justice, and for the social conservative Alliance Defending Freedom.
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As a social conservative, Franks for years has advocated restricting access to abortions, and with Republicans controlling all the levers of power in Washington, he argued now was the best shot to do it.
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A social conservative who wants to restore the death penalty and rejects equal inheritance for men and women, Saied's main focus is decentralisation in a country where politicians in the capital have traditionally dominated.
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It was a sweet moment of vindication for the Republican Party -- especially its social conservative and evangelical wings who had defied expectations that they would desert Trump over his three marriages and often vulgar tone.
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Finally, Trudeau said on Wednesday he would raise his concerns about "backsliding" on women's rights in the United States and elsewhere with Pence, a social conservative and one of the most prominent American abortion opponents.
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Between the lines: This fits under Trump's social conservative — religious liberty — agenda and is a big reason why he has such strong support from evangelical Christians who voted for him in record numbers in 2016.
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Abortion has emerged as the latest terrain for Cruz and Trump to argue over who is the true social conservative in the race, and the billionaire businessman has charged that the Texas senator is lying.
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" For decades, said Nicholas Everhart, a Republican strategist who has worked with conservative candidates, "The Republican Party has had developing divisions, fights, and battles going on from the populist, libertarian, America First, social conservative wings.
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Matovic, who formerly owned regional newspapers and who has been a lawmaker since 2010, calls himself a social conservative and economic liberal but declines to tag OLANO on a left-right or liberal-conservative scale.
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It's my hope that as a Republican I can get our own party to start taking a look at these types of issues, which make sense if you are fiscal conservative or a social conservative.
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And Republicans tend to be less enthusiastic about public transport and employer-paid sick leave than Democrats; Mr Hogan may not be a Trumpian nationalist or a rigid social conservative, but he is still a Republican.
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Several said that he had not been their first choice to be the Republican nominee—and indeed back in April Mr Trump lost the Wisconsin presidential primary to Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, a social conservative.
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In stark contrast to the libertine Trump, who displays a casual indifference to social issues like abortion and LGBT rights, French is a devout social conservative, a Calvinist who delights in the idea of eternal damnation.
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With Mr Straus wielding the gavel, they could advocate—or in the case of Mr Patrick, who heads the Senate, pass—harmful legislation to burnish their social-conservative credentials, knowing it would never pass the House.
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They note that the areas in which Kasich had been expected to be strong — the suburbs of Indianapolis and other major cities like Evansville — look like inhospitable ground for an evangelical social conservative such as Cruz.
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Mr. Pence, who supported Senator Ted Cruz of Texas in Indiana's Republican primary, is a first-term governor with strong credentials as a social conservative that could help Mr. Trump placate that wing of the party.
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Iowa Republicans, meanwhile, gave their stamp of approval to a social conservative who failed to win the nomination for the third presidential cycle in a row: They sent Cruz down the same path that former Sen.
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Their headline read, "Trump the Gun Grabber: Cedes Dems' Wish List — Bump Stocks, Buying Age, 'Assault Weapons,' Background Checks..." Fox News host and staunch social conservative Laura Ingraham launched a threat at Trump on Twitter Wednesday.
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Social conservative leaders have met with White House officials to discuss calling attention to Democratic-sponsored legislation to loosen restrictions on abortion in the second and third trimesters, like one that passed recently in New York.
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"Republicans are right, as a moral matter as well as a political matter, to take allegations of misbehavior like this seriously," said Frank Cannon, president of the American Principles Project and a veteran social conservative strategist.
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SBA List has long been a prominent player in social conservative efforts to restrict public funding for abortion providers and limit abortion procedures to cases in which the life or health of the mother is endangered.
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The A.K.P. members may have thought that this would be the end of it — another law passed as part of their social conservative agenda, with little pushback in a country where civil society is increasingly repressed.
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CG: I mean we've got this list and I--there is a wide range within that list from some names that appear to be more libertarian-bent to some who appear to be more social conservative-bent.
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Cruz, a U.S. senator from Texas, is a staunch social conservative and a divisive figure in the party due to his willingness to criticize the leadership and his prominent role in bringing about a 2013 government shutdown.
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While the focus has been on her defeat of a longtime incumbent and social conservative, Roem told anchor Kate Bolduan that she credited a true "team effort" for propelling her to victory in Virginia's House of Delegates.
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As a result, social conservatives have done well there since at least 1988, when social conservative leader Pat Robertson scored a strong second-place finish in Iowa, beating the eventual nominee, then–Vice President George H.W. Bush.
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While there are ideological differences among them — Judge Barrett is an outspoken social conservative, while Judges Kavanaugh, Kethledge and Hardiman are viewed more as pro-business, law-and-order judges — all four have compiled uniformly conservative records.
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"I don't care if he lies or exaggerates in his tweets or breaks his vows to his wife, so long as he keeps his promises to me," Leah Rownan, a self-described social conservative from Henderson, Nev.
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But it also showed the value of picking candidates — in Mr. Saccone, 60, a social conservative who was not the natural choice for many suburban Republicans, and in Mr. Lamb, a telegenic 33-year-old former Marine.
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"The Kochs didn't like the social issues, so they tried to make it a small-government thing and put 'values' on the back burner," social conservative activist Tony Perkins says in Tim Alberta's new book American Carnage.
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Even though some of the places where Republicans lost, including in Arizona, Nevada and areas of the Midwest, are not traditional social conservative strongholds, some on the religious right do not see Democratic pickups as long term.
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" That argument, as Jenée Desmond-Harris wrote for Vox in 2017, "validates a particular social conservative worldview by placing the blame for disparate academic outcomes squarely on the backward ideas of black children and black cultural pathology.
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Atwood invented Gilead at a time when conservative Christians still plausibly imagined American culture as theirs to "take back" and when a backlash against women in the work force was a meaningful part of social-conservative politics.
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But Mr. Abbott's failure to get the Republican-dominated Legislature to enact his whole social conservative agenda has opened him up to a new round of criticism that he is strong in rhetoric but weak in influence.
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Nevertheless, Republican elites have concluded that taking social conservative positions, such as visibly opposing gay marriage, will hurt them, in part because social conservatives do not appear to have political resources to invest in helping them win.
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As National Review's Ed Whelan — a leading judicial conservative and Hardiman supporter — notes, Barry testified to the Senate in support of the nomination of her colleague Alito, who proved to be a consistent social conservative once confirmed.
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A social conservative, Kramp-Karrenbauer is pragmatic and more centrist on economic policy, like Merkel, whom she is in pole position to succeed after winning the CDU leadership that the chancellor decided last year not to seek again.
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Leonard Leo, an influential social conservative who advises the White House on judicial matters, tells me speculation that President Trump has abandoned a core campaign promise on religious rights — based on delays over an executive order — is misguided.
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Together, the two represent a particular strain of the social conservative movement that believes deeply in a kind of religious nationalism — and that the other two factions must be destroyed for conservatism to survive in the 21st century.
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Centre-right presidential candidate Francois Fillon, the favourite to beat National Front contender Marine Le Pen in the race to replace unpopular President Francois Hollande, is a social conservative who is also an unashamed proponent of liberal markets.
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The governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, is a staunch social conservative who formerly served as the state's attorney-general and is proud to have sued Barack Obama's administration 31 times over policies including health care and environmental regulations.
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Anti-gay sentiment has coursed through Iowa politics for years, particularly among some vocal social conservative groups, but the state was among the first to legalize same sex marriage 10 years ago, something that Buttigieg acknowledged on Tuesday.
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Doing so would be a taunt to the "dishonest media" and "elites" Trump so often derides, even as Pence fulfills the basic political task of approximating some kind of party reconciliation and covering Trump's social conservative blind spots.
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Our survey was conducted last November, but today it is clear that the leading candidates are striving to outdo one another on appealing to social conservative policies (particularly immigration) and hawkish foreign policy (including "carpet-bombing" our enemies).
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The Faith & Freedom Coalition reportedly plans "to micro-target around 125 million social conservative voters across 19 different states through door-to-door interactions, digital ads, phone calls, and mailers," according to an article in The Christian Post.
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What happens in the session — and particularly what form the bathroom bill takes and whether it passes or fails — will provide the clearest signal of whether there is any effective brake left on social-conservative Republicans in Texas.
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A planned tour of Britain by the American evangelist Franklin Graham, an outspoken social conservative and a vocal supporter of President Trump, will move forward despite being dropped by venues over concerns about his past statements, according to organizers.
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But Humphrey's fascism rhetoric ties the social conservative critique of Trump to that of neoconservatives, who couldn't care less about abortion law but similarly zero in on the idea of Trump as a uniquely dangerous demagogue with dictatorial tendencies.
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But Democrats lashed at Trump's NASA nominee at his Senate confirmation hearing last week, not least because he's a social conservative who opposes gay marriage and disputes climate change — and could send NASA engineers packing for the private sector.
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AKK, as she is widely known, was chief minister of the small state of Saarland and has identified herself both as a feminist and as a social conservative – opposing, on religious grounds (she is a staunch Roman Catholic) same-sex marriages.
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It was a spectacle that underscored the odd couple nature of the GOP ticket, that now unites Trump, a brash, volatile outsider with a sparse ideological track record, with Pence, a strait-laced, disciplined warrior of the social conservative movement.
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Cruz's rhetoric was some of his sharpest of the campaign — but it paled in comparison to the attacks leveled by Bob Vander Plaats, Iowa's most prominent social conservative and a Cruz backer who Trump went after on Twitter a day earlier.
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Casey Cagle and Secretary of State Brian Kemp advanced to a July runoff vote Tuesday night in the state&aposs GOP race for governor, after grueling campaigns that saw the candidates battling over who carried the most social conservative credentials.
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Although backing the students then, as a social conservative King Bhumibol was worried about the threat to public order inherent in any people's movement, and three years later he intervened on the side of the military after another bloody putsch.
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In 1990, he was interviewed by Vanity Fair — of all magazines — and came away sounding more like a social conservative from the deep South distinguishing "real America" from the coastal Gomorrahs rather than the mogul whose extramarital affair made tabloid headlines.
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OTTAWA (Reuters) - Andrew Scheer, a social conservative who unexpectedly won the race to head Canada's main opposition party, is a popular legislator who may be able to unite a divided movement as he prepares to take on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
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Green, an outspoken social conservative is the president of the arts-and-crafts chain Hobby Lobby, which drew liberal ire by winning a 2014 Supreme Court case that allowed the company to opt out of the required contraceptive coverage under Obamacare.
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Since Trump himself was a New York real estate guy, they simply assume that he agrees with them about this as just bubba bait — exactly the same as how Trump obviously isn't a sincere social conservative on questions of sexual morality.
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All of this caused the social conservative movement consternation during the primaries and into the general election, but the deal, such as it was, was that they'd go along with his candidacy so long as he appointed judges they liked.
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There's a joke in 30 Rock, Tina Fey's Saturday Night Live-inspired series, in which the archetypal bad ex-boyfriend character Dennis Duffy proclaims himself to be a "social conservative, fiscal liberal"—implying that this is the most absurd of political configurations.
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For instance, ALEC set up a system of task forces that decentralized policy proposal writing to the businesses and activists who cared the most about an issue; agricultural companies wrote model bills on environmental regulations while social conservative groups crafted welfare proposals.
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OTTAWA, May 28 (Reuters) - Andrew Scheer, a social conservative who now heads Canada's main opposition party, faces a formidable rival in Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as he bids to heal a divided party and fend off charges he is a closet extremist.
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"Trump has gone to great lengths to court national leaders in the social-conservative movement and has convinced many of the most prominent ones that he genuinely supports their policy positions," she and co-authors Ed Martin and Brett M. Decker wrote.
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Wilson is an articulate, button-down 21-year-old fourth year BA student originally from Kelowna, BC. He identifies himself as a fiscal, not social, conservative, though he is active in Kellie Leitch's campaign, which has been accused of courting the alt-right.
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Meanwhile, the Republican coalition sprawls across populist, libertarian and social conservative terrain; it's less consistent and unified (and hard-pressed to come up with a governing agenda), but that very inconsistency can be a strength when it comes to winning battleground elections.
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"If you ask social conservative voters, would you be willing to accept Nancy Pelosi as speaker for two more Supreme Court justices, I suspect they would make that trade," said Dan Schnur, a former longtime Republican strategist who is now an Independent.
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A former president of the North Carolina Baptist Convention, Mr. Harris is a social conservative who helped lead a successful ballot initiative in 2012 that amended the state constitution to forbid North Carolina from performing or recognizing same-sex marriage or civil unions.
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For more … Michael Brendan Dougherty, writing in National Review, has made a related argument: Democrats are no more willing than social-conservative Trump supporters to lay down their culture-war objectives and enmities in order to save the constitution from the president.
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The controversy over continued evangelical support of Alabama senatorial candidate Roy Moore — who narrowly lost Tuesday night in the midst of multiple accusations of sexually inappropriate behavior with teenage girls — only emphasizes the gap between moral values and venal power grabs for social conservative causes.
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"Trump has gone to great lengths to court national leaders in the social-conservative movement and has convinced many of the most prominent ones that he genuinely supports their policy positions," she wrote in the book co-authored by Ed Martin and Brett M. Decker.
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In March, the Senate passed a bill backed by social conservative Republican Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick that would require people to use restrooms in public schools and buildings that correspond with the gender on their birth certificate, not the gender with which they identify.
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And for Trump's social conservative supporters who voted for him over Bush or Rubio, believing that he could do what they had not on abortion and the religious liberty issues that drive them most, getting a "swamp pick" instead is a tremendous let-down.
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Pence is the Devil we know, a social conservative who hates women and the LGBTQ community, whereas Trump is an authoritarian kleptocrat (who also hates women and the LGBTQ community) bent on enriching his empire, destroying our country, and possibly inciting World War III.
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For example, at an Iowa forum last year, Trump said he didn't think he'd ever asked God for forgiveness; but after meeting with Trump in June, social conservative leader James Dobson said he believed that Trump had found Christ and become a born-again Christian.
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"The Trump administration has been continually pressing their thumb on the scale in favor of social conservative ideology, at the expense of the needs, rights and values of everyone else in the United States," Adam Sonfield, Guttmacher Institute senior policy manager, said in a statement.
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He has told Mr. Trump he could lose the two senators, who support abortion rights, if he picks another judge seen as a contender, Amy Coney Barrett, an outspoken social conservative who some observers believe may be more open to overturning Roe v. Wade.
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"Many Christians are advocating for a man who I think would be the most immoral and ungodly of any person elected to public office," John Stemberger, the head of the Florida Family Policy Council, and a top social conservative in the state, told Mashable.
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Amid the firestorm of criticism, Pence backpedaled and signed an amendment to the bill into law aimed at preventing anyone from using the law to discriminate against LGBT individuals -- earning Pence a fresh wave of criticism from social conservative warriors who argued Pence had waffled on principle.
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And while Cruz was working to win the most critical endorsements of social conservative leaders in Iowa, which he has now received, he was also building formidable operations in the southern states that vote March 1, when more delegates will be awarded than on any other day.
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Activists and leaders in the social conservative movement, after spending most of the past year opposing and condemning Donald J. Trump, are now moving to embrace his candidacy and are joining the growing number of mainstream Republicans who appear ready to coalesce around the party's presumptive nominee.
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Trump, who has made bringing Americans overseas back home a focus of his presidency and tweeted about Brunson Tuesday night, and Pence, a social conservative wired in to the issue of persecuted Christians in the Middle East, have both since raised the issue with Turkish officials.
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Incensed Democrats boycotted the proceedings, but their empty chairs did not prevent candidates for the bench, such as Allison Rushing, 36, a social conservative nominated by President Trump to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, from taking a crucial step toward confirmation.
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If the social conservative agenda were to win out, the most likely outcome would be a surge in unwanted children — along with the costs those children bear — according to David A. Grimes, a former chief of the abortion surveillance branch at the Centers for Disease Control.
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At the beginning of the primary season, the Rubio campaign asked likely Republican primary voters for their preference among three potential kinds of candidates: a fiscal and social conservative who shared their values; a proven executive leader; or an outsider who wanted to shake up the system.
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His basic problem is that he is a libertarian, and the majority of major democratically elected world leaders come from either an activist government center-left tradition (Barack Obama, Justin Trudeau, François Hollande, Matteo Renzi) or a social conservative center-right tradition (Shinzo Abe, Angela Merkel, Theresa May).
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"It's a continuation of a strategy that we've had for some time, which is to pass as many pro-life laws as we can at the state level with a strategy of bold incrementalism," said Ralph Reed, founder of the Faith and Freedom Coalition, a social conservative political group.
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"If me being gay was a choice, it was a choice that was made far, far above my pay grade," Buttigieg said on Sunday while speaking at the LGBTQ Victory Fund National Champagne Brunch, making a direct appeal to the same religious beliefs that Pence has said support his social conservative.
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Then in the role of the social conservative insurgent, you have Amy Coney Barrett — newly appointed to the federal bench, famous for having her Catholic commitments crudely criticized by Dianne Feinstein, personally appealing because she's managed to produce impressive legal scholarship while raising seven children (two adopted, one with special needs).
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If Cruz had gotten second — as appeared plausible, given that his numbers rivaled those of Kasich, Rubio, and Bush — that would've suggested that he wasn't a social conservative Iowa fluke, like Mike Huckabee in 220 and Rick Santorum in 22008, but was actually a viable nominee with appeal outside evangelical-heavy electorates.
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Then after Massachusetts's Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage, Romney reinvented himself as a fire-breathing social conservative and champion of traditional values — discovering a newfound faith-based opposition to abortion rights that had somehow gone missing over the previous decade to stand alongside his commitment to the then-traditional definition of marriage.
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First-time Democratic candidates include Chris Hurst, a former TV anchor in Roanoke whose colleague and girlfriend, Alison Parker, was murdered on camera in 2015, and Danica Roem, a transgender woman facing a social conservative who introduced a "bathroom bill" this year to keep transgender people from using restrooms of their choice.
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WASHINGTON — The Heritage Foundation, the conservative think tank that has influenced Republican White Houses and shaped conservative policy since the 1970s, named a new president on Tuesday who has deep ties to the party's social conservative and evangelical Christian wing as it moved to steady itself after a year of internal turmoil.
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Some believe Governor Greg Abbott will miss Joe Straus more than he would ever admit in public, since the speaker blocks true-believing Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick and the members of the Texas Freedom Caucus from going full social conservative; without him, Abbott won't have anyone to blame if measures like the bathroom bill fail.
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RELATED: Dems unite behind Clinton, GOP divided on Trump Bob Vander Plaats, the head of The Family Leader, an influential social conservative group in Iowa, told CNN's Kate Bolduan Friday morning that "everything does need to be on the table" at the convention, though he stopped short of calling for a revolt on the convention floor.
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Rhetoric from opponents of the legislation — who dubbed it "the bathroom bill" — was virtually identical to the arguments put forward by social conservative groups currently defending discriminatory laws in North Carolina, which forces transgender males into female washrooms, and vice versa, based on the notion that their sex at birth should determine which facility to use.
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Consider the figures who are now in power around Trump: Mike Pence, who is a social conservative who believes in gay conversion therapy; Peter Thiel, who is gay and a social libertarian; Stephen Bannon, who wants to launch an alt-right revolution against the GOP elite; and Reince Priebus, a Republican functionary who is the perfect embodiment of that elite.
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Rob PortmanRobert (Rob) Jones PortmanSchumer blasts 'red flag' gun legislation as 'ineffective cop out' McConnell faces pressure to bring Senate back for gun legislation Shaken Portman urges support for 'red flag' laws after Ohio shooting MORE (R-Ohio), who faces his own primary challenge from Don Elijah Eckhart, a social conservative who has unsuccessfully run for Congress in the past.
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"There's a tremendous gap at the moment between grassroots conservatives and the governing class of the Republican Party and it's manifesting itself in a lot of support for Trump, which may be somewhat improbable as a location for that [to land], and for Cruz, who is a more traditional conservative," said former presidential candidate Gary Bauer, a top social conservative.
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Ted CruzRafael (Ted) Edward CruzTrump moves forward with F-16 sale to Taiwan opposed by China The Hill's Campaign Report: Battle for Senate begins to take shape O'Rourke says he will not 'in any scenario' run for Senate MORE (R-Texas) Cruz ultimately became the most serious challenger to Trump for the GOP nomination, cementing his status as the leading social conservative voice in the party.
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The nation's largest LGBT advocacy group is accusing Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE of courting "anti-LGBT leaders and designated hate groups," as the likely GOP presidential nominee meets with top social conservative and evangelical leaders in New York City.
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Given the unpopularity of the Socialists, Le Pen's chief opponents are now François Fillon — a center-right, market-oriented social conservative who has promised to cut public-sector jobs and was recently depicted on the front page of the left-wing newspaper Libération with a Margaret Thatcher hairdo — and Emmanuel Macron, a young former investment banker who served as the economy minister under Hollande but has now split to form his own neither-of-the-left-nor-of-the-right political movement.
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Announcing that he will nominate Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court is obviously a bridge to far because of social conservative fervor, but offering a detente to Senate Minority Leader Chuck SchumerCharles (Chuck) Ellis SchumerLewandowski on potential NH Senate run: If I run, 'I'm going to win' Appropriators warn White House against clawing back foreign aid Colorado candidates vying to take on Gardner warn Hickenlooper they won't back down MORE instead of referring to him as "head clown" would be a great first step.
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Lisa MurkowskiLisa Ann MurkowskiThe Hill's Morning Report - Progressives, centrists clash in lively Democratic debate Senate braces for brawl over Trump's spy chief Congress kicks bipartisan energy innovation into higher gear MORE (Alaska) and Susan CollinsSusan Margaret CollinsCook Political Report moves Susan Collins Senate race to 'toss up' The Hill's Morning Report — Trump and the new Israel-'squad' controversy Trump crosses new line with Omar, Tlaib, Israel move MORE (Maine) if he picks Amy Coney Barrett, a social conservative who some think may be willing to overturn Roe v. Wade.
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She wrote: Given that transgender people are 49 times more likely to be living with HIV than the general population, their exclusion from the high-level meeting will only impede global progress in combating the HIV/AIDS pandemic...The movement to block the participation of NGOs on spurious or hidden grounds is becoming epidemic and severely damages the credibility of the UN. Around UN headquarters on New York's East River, the origins of this "movement" are clear enough: it reflects a social-conservative diplomatic coalition orchestrated mainly by the OIC and Russia, with some opportunistic support from China.
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