Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump is warning that Christians must band together, and says the religion is “under siege” in Syria.
“It’s under siege. You look at Syria where they’re chopping heads off, specifically of Christians, and others, and Christianity is under siege, David,” Trump said an interview published Tuesday on the “The Brody File” on the Christian Broadcasting Network.
“And we have to do something, we have to band together, we have to become stronger as Christians because it’s very bad what’s happening with respect to Christianity,” Trump said.
“We’re not banded together properly,” he added. “We have to stick together whether it’s very, very serious things like what’s happening over in the Middle East or things such as ‘Merry Christmas.’ You don’t see it anymore in department stores. We have to get together and make sure it’s what we want.”
The interview came after Trump’s rally at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Va., Monday afternoon, where he elaborated on his idea of protecting Christianity and touted his Presbyterian faith.
The billionaire businessman continues to spar with GOP rival Texas Sen. Ted Cruz with roughly two weeks until the first-in-the-nation primary in Iowa, where evangelical voters represent a large majority.
In a RealClearPolitics average of Iowa polls, Trump and Cruz are neck-and-neck, with 27.8 percent and 26.7 percent, respectively. Ted Cruz is first and Trump is second in the Washington Examiner‘s presidential power rankings.
