South Carolina Trump Supporters Reject Pope's Comments That Seemed to Question Candidate's Faith

Donald Trump in Dec. 14 in Las Vegas. Joseph Sohm / Shutterstock.com

Donald Trump supporters in South Carolina on Friday were unmoved by Pope Francis’s comments the day before that were widely interpreted as a criticism of the Republican front-runner’s Christian values.

“A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges, is not Christian,” the pope told journalists asking his opinion on Trump’s controversial plan to stop illegal immigration at the Mexican border.

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