Many of Trump’s evangelical leaders were optimistic of Trump’s success leading into Election Day. More than a handful drew on spiritual experiences, like prophecies and dreams, for strength. White early on had spiritual visions of God’s plan for Trump. Cleveland pastor Darrell Scott’s wife, Belinda, has had dreams where God showed her Trump would win. “I prophesized back in the primaries, we are going to win,” Mark Burns, televangelist from Easley, South Carolina and Trump surrogate, says. “God uses the least likely, from myself to Donald Trump.”
Tuesday morning, Trump invited several of his top evangelical supporters to visti him in his office. Scott, pastor of Cleveland’s New Spirit Revival Center, and Bruce LeVell, the Georgia jeweler who led Trump’s National Diversity Coalition, stopped by. Later that afternoon, Scott was with Trump advisor Michael Cohen in Trump Tower when he got a random call from one of Clinton’s Ohio phone bankers, asking him to vote for Clinton. Scott put the call on speaker, and the room chimed in that they all “hated” Clinton. “The call was the highlight of my day,” Scott says.
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