Donald Trump met with almost a thousand Evangelical leaders yesterday to try and convince them that he's one of them.
Dr. Ben Carson joined MSNBC's Morning Joe program earlier today and was by the co-host why evangelical leaders were lining up behind Trump.
SCARBOROUGH: Dr. Carson, I want to circle back to yesterday's meeting again and have you help us out, help everybody out in explaining what evangelicals and people of faith are looking for in 2016. You obviously have in Donald Trump, in the Republican nominee, a man who's not well versed in the Bible, who's not well versed in the books of the Bible, who's not well versed in the traditional Christian faith, and yet you have evangelicals that are lining up behind him. Can you explain to viewers why that is?
Any honest person knows that Trump has no idea what he's talking about when it comes to religion and never cared about it before he ran for the presidency.
Dr. Carson responded to Scarborough this way.
CARSON: Yes, I think the evangelical community realizes we're not choosing the preacher-in-chief, we're looking for the commander-in-chief. But we want a commander-in-chief who understands the importance, for instance, of the first amendment and - and not penalizing people for living according to their faith.
