Following U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz’ third-place finish in the South Carolina Republican Primary on Saturday, nationally syndicated radio host Glenn Beck was disappointed, but far from ready to give up.
He appeared with the Texas senator Sunday in Las Vegas. He was slated to appear with him again Monday in Reno, the other major population center in Nevada. The Nevada Republican Caucus is Tuesday evening.
Shortly after the South Carolina results were clear, Beck took to social media with a demand for the bottom-tier candidates still in the race:
“It is time for the others to drop out and make this the three-way race we all know it is,” he said. “Who that helps, I don’t know, but it is time to begin to narrow the field. I would assume the establishment will coalesce around Rubio. Ted will make his own way as will Trump.”
A short time later, he had a request for evangelicals who are supporting Cruz:
“I would like to ask you to join me and my family Monday in a fast for Ted Cruz, our country and the Nevada caucus.”
Beck has regularly pinned the hopes of the election on evangelical voters. That has been the key voting bloc the Cruz campaign has focused on in his bid for the White House.
That strategy seemed to pay off in Iowa, where most evangelicals came out in support of the senator. But in New Hampshire and South Carolina, the evangelical Christian vote has fractured between Cruz and his chief rivals, front-runner Donald Trump and U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, with Trump winning a plurality of those votes.
Beck, who is a Mormon, has previously said he felt the nation’s future rested on evangelicals voting for Cruz.
“If the country is lost, it will be lost because of the Christians,” he said. “There will be no one else to blame. You can’t blame the progressives. You can’t blame the left. You can’t blame Hillary Clinton. You can’t blame anyone else but the Christians who are not living and voting their principles.”
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