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Donald Trump Only Gets Prayer at Breakfast, Says Senator Chris Coons

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To say the least Senator Chris Coons has a lot of differences with president-elect Donald Trump.

But when the Republican shows up for National Prayer Breakfast in February the Delaware Democrat told reporters the only thing he will be offering up is prayer.

Coons and Arkansas Republican Senator John Boozman co-chair the event for next year and thus extended the invitation to the president-elect.

Attendance reaches back to President Dwight Eisenhower in 1953.

The Delaware Senator sits on the Foreign Relations Committee and will no doubt have plenty of questions for Trump's nomination of Rex Tillerson for Secretary of State.

But when pressed by reporters if he might have some questions for Trump Coons reportedly threw up his hands and said “My goal is to extend an invitation to the president-elect to join what is a long standing tradition of a non-partisan, nonsectarian, inclusive annual breakfast.”

Don Rush is the News Director and Senior Producer of News and Public Affairs at Delmarva Public Media. An award-winning journalist, Don reports major local issues of the day, from sea level rise, to urban development, to the changing demographics of Delmarva.