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Presidential Elections 2016: Donald Trump is not the man to vote for, says megachurch pastor Perry Noble

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Perry Noble, preacher and senior pastor at NewSpring Church in South Carolina, has made his thoughts on Donald Trump loud and clear in a series of tweets on the Republican Presidential candidate.

Noble is the head pastor of NewSpring Church in South Carolina, with more than 32,000 parishioners attending the worship service every Sunday. He recently revealed that he strongly holds to his Evangelical beliefs when it comes to determining who he votes for.

"I do not believe in the privatization of my walk with the Lord. However, should the person I choose to vote for lose, then I believe it is my responsibility to pray for that person daily, not that they will fail, but they will succeed," he said.

Noble posted tweets saying that he will not endorse Trump in the upcoming election and added that his way of campaigning is as nasty as any of the other Presidential candidates. In a recent poll done CNN, white evangelical voters supports Donald Trump over Ted Cruz by 16 percent. The well-known pastor voiced his disapproval of Trump's policies, such as his proposal to ban all Muslims travelling to the United States, deportation of all illegal immigrants and building a substantial wall on the Mexican-American border.

Recently, Trump has made several attempts to gain the votes of evangelicals in the United States. He has openly discussed his Presbyterian faith. "I am an Evangelical. I'm a Christian. I'm a Presbyterian," Trump said in December, although the pastor of the church that Trump claims to attend reportedly said the real estate mogul had not gone there for a long time. The sincerity of his Christian faith was further called into question when he read 2 Corinthians as "two Corinthians", instead of "second" during a speech at Liberty University.