Trump Goes Traditional With Florida Meeting of Evangelical Leaders

The Republican presidential nominee will meet with members of the American Renewal Project’s Pastors and Pews series, courting a key voting bloc.

Donald Trump holds up a Bible while speaking at the Values Voter Summit in Washington on Sept. 25, 2015.

Photographer: Drew Angerer/Bloomberg
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Donald Trump is going to his first Pastors and Pews meeting to face a gauntlet of questions from evangelical Christians about how he’d bring about a more Christian nation.

It will be a friendly room for the Republican presidential nominee, but there will be high expectations from the 700 conservative pastors and spouses at the private meeting sponsored by the American Renewal Project Thursday in Florida, organizers said.