Some conservative Christian voters, however, were quick to note that their affinity for Trump did not extend to Hof. But Hof held a rally with former Trump adviser Roger Stone and said he would not be in a position to win the district without the president’s transformation of the party. He credits Trump as the torchbearer for a new era of Republican, eager to embrace the support of the religious right, eschew the establishment and break the mold of a traditional candidate. senator up for re-election this autumn, and much of the party establishment have not endorsed him. But Brian Sandoval, Nevada’s Republican governor, Dean Heller, the state’s vulnerable Republican U.S.
The chairman of the state party said it welcomed “fiscal conservatives” such as Hof. Hof has gotten a mixed reception from Republican leaders. Voter Debbie Thomas said she signed the petition to shutter brothels but also backed Hof, who campaigned on issues including repealing Nevada’s commerce tax, protecting gun rights, improving education and protecting residents’ water rights against the federal government. They are not permitted in highly populated areas, including the counties containing the cities of Las Vegas and Reno. Voters in Lyon County, where he operates four of his brothels, will be asked in November if they want the businesses closed.īrothels have been permitted in parts of Nevada since the 1800s and were first licensed in the 1970s. Hof beat a three-term incumbent legislator even as party activists pushed to get Hof’s legal brothels shut down. Their support remains robust: 71 percent of white evangelical voters said they approved of Trump’s job performance, according to the nationwide Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted online from June 1-18, compared with 43 percent of U.S. “Tribal values now supersede personal morality as an animating force.”Ĭonvinced Trump would go to bat for them, a majority of evangelicals looked past the Republican’s two divorces and allegations of marital infidelity to provide him key votes in the 2016 presidential election. “It’s more important for evangelical voters that Trump is fighting for an idealized, white Christian, conservative America,” said Dan Cox, research director at the Public Religion Research Institute, a nonpartisan organization that researches the intersection of religion, culture and public policy.
He did not ask God to deliver Nevada and the Republican Party from Hof, the thrice-divorced author of “The Art of the Pimp” who campaigned as the “Trump of Pahrump.” Although Christian groups have long rallied against the state’s legal brothel industry, Fuentes was willing to overlook Hof’s history as a champion of the flesh trade and gave thanks for his victory.įor decades, evangelical voters have been a pillar of the Republican Party in the United States, using grassroots muscle to turn out votes and engage in political battles over hot-button social issues such as abortion and same-sex marriage.īut in recent years, many conservative Christians have lost trust in establishment Republicans, whom they accuse of not fighting for values they feel are under attack in modern America.įor them, Trump symbolizes a new breed of politician who is willing to upend long-held political norms - a quality they say outweighs any real or perceived moral flaws. When news broke that Hof had won the nominating contest for a state Assembly seat on June 12, evangelical pastor Victor Fuentes said he closed his eyes and prayed.
“Trump is the trailblazer, he is the Christopher Columbus of honest politics.” “People will set aside for a moment their moral beliefs, their religious beliefs, to get somebody that is honest in office,” he said.
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“This really is the Trump movement,” Hof, 71, told Reuters in an interview at Moonlite BunnyRanch, his brothel near Carson City in northern Nevada that was featured on the HBO reality television series “Cathouse.” Meet Dennis Hof, whose political rise reflects fundamental changes in electoral norms that have roiled the Republican Party and upended American politics during the era of President Donald Trump.
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