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Huckabee as Trump’s pick for Israel ambassador is a win for Christian Zionism. Here’s why.

“These are the people that were loyal to Trump in the first administration, were loyal to him when he was out of power and are now going to be close to the center of the second administration,” said Daniel Hummel, a religious historian at the University of Wisconsin in Madison and a leading expert on evangelical support for Israel.  “I don’t know how they would be any closer — but I don’t see any daylight right now.”