How evangelical Christians are sizing up the 2024 GOP primary

Here at the Road to Majority conference, the crowd was most eager to hear from the ex-president. But they were also open to thinking about alternatives, like DeSantis — although multiple people interviewed for this story mispronounced his name as “DeSantos.”

Patrick Gebauer from Atlanta said the Republican Party could use Trump’s leadership, but “there could be so much carnage because the left hates him so much.”

“I’d like to see DeSantis, I know he’s led in a powerful way. He’s not afraid to take people on,” Gebauer said.

Chad Bobo from Nashville said the main reason he came to the conference was to hear from Trump. “I like the other speakers. One of them is Tim Scott,” he said. “But I’m still looking for the president to get the nomination in 2024.”