It’s a secure guess that Bishop E.W. Jackson gained’t take the Republican presidential major debate stage in Milwaukee subsequent week, however what he lacks in polls and donors, he makes up for in utter confidence.
“Eventually, the press is going to have to acknowledge that I’m a candidate with support, and then the rest will take care of itself,” the 71-year-old pastor in Chesapeake, Virginia, mentioned in a current interview. “We’re working right now to get on the debate stage. … If we don’t, though, we’re not dropping out of the race. We’ve got to go for the next debate and the next debate. We’re going to continue to just work at it and wait for our breakthrough moment.”
“Long shot” is likely to be a beneficiant description of Mr. Jackson’s presidential potential, however his earlier political campaigns have borne his quixotic ambitions and given him a measure of identify recognition in Virginia. In 2013, he was the Republican nominee for lieutenant governor however misplaced to Ralph Northam. In 2018, he sought the nomination for a U.S. Senate seat however garnered solely 12% of major votes; his 2012 Senate bid gained 4.7 % of GOP major votes.
Meanwhile, his radio present “The Awakening” airs each day on 180 radio stations affiliated with American Family Radio, a community in Tupelo, Mississippi. He ceaselessly discusses “the fundamental threat to the spiritual and moral foundations of our Constitutional Republic,” in accordance with the community’s web site.
As senior pastor of The Called Church, Mr. Jackson ministers to a 100-member nondenominational congregation in Chesapeake, dwelling to many present and former army service members like himself, a former Marine.
His expertise, training (Harvard Law School graduate), religion and confidence bolster his description of himself as “the complete package” among the many discipline of 290 Republicans who’ve filed paperwork with the Federal Election Commission to run for president.
“I really believe that without Judeo-Christian values and principles coming back, our country is headed for a cataclysm for disaster,” Mr. Jackson informed The Washington Times. America’s “problem is not global warming, but moral cooling [and] I don’t hear any other candidate is saying that.”
The great-grandson of former slaves, Mr. Jackson mentioned he should communicate “the hard truths that must be told, which is the problem in the Black community is not racism.”
“The problem in the Black community is the breakdown of the family. And we’ve got a bunch of young men who have not been raised right. Their fathers have not been there to teach them,” he mentioned.
Society must “raise up a generation of kids who understand that if you get an education, a marketable skill, stay out of trouble and don’t father children until you are married, you’re going to have a pretty good life in the United States of America,” he added.
He mentioned he would instantly suggest 4 constitutional amendments if nominated and elected. The first would “define life and personhood at conception.” A second would “define gender as having only two categories, male and female,” and a 3rd would restrict marriage to being “between one man and one woman.”
His fourth modification would restrict so-called birthright citizenship for individuals who have no less than one organic father or mother who’s a U.S. citizen.
“I would end having babies on vacation and getting across the border and having a baby once you get here, so that they’d be ‘anchors’ because the baby is an American citizen,” Mr. Jackson mentioned.
“My ancestors were slaves,” he mentioned. “I really value and appreciate the 14th Amendment. It was not meant so that the Chinese could send people here on vacation and have babies that could then go back to China but still claim American citizenship, and it’s time we brought an end to that.”
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