US ELECTION 2024
election 2024
Election 2024 United States presidential election will be the 60th quadrennial presidential election, set to be held on Tuesday, November 5, 2024. Voters will elect a president and vice president for a term of four years. The incumbent president, Joe Biden, a member of the Democratic Party, is running for re-election. His predecessor, Donald Trump, a member of the Republican Party, is running for re-election for a second, non-consecutive term, after losing to Biden in the 2020 presidential election. If both are nominated, this will mark the first presidential election rematch since 1956. In the run-up to the election, on May 30, 2024, Trump was convicted of 34 felonies related to falsifying business records, becoming the first president to be found guilty of a crime.
Among the striking features of Donald J. Trump’s victory on November 5 is the emergence of a multi-ethnic coalition of blue-collar and middle-class voters. A key element of this coalition is religious conservatives, among whom evangelicals are a core component. Exit polling in 2024 reveals white evangelical support for Trump at 82 percent (compared with 76 percent in 2020 and 81 percent in 2016). Trump’s strength among evangelicals was sustained despite his increasing pragmatism on the social issues that are many of these voters’ primary motivation. While holding steady with evangelicals, Trump increased his support among religious-conservative swing cohorts such as Catholics and Latino Christians, who likewise, despite his deviations, appear to regard him as a champion of their values. This combination of old and new strengths powered Trump’s winning coalition—and raises the question of whether that coalition will be a lasting one. (First Things 12/6/24) READ MORE>>>>>
A whopping 80% of evangelicals voted for President-elect Donald Trump in 2024. But behind that headline number, the dramatic fall in these Christian’s cultural influence played a much more profound role in Trump’s victories than evangelical voters did. In the 1990s, evangelicals were a political force. Pat Robertson’s Christian Coalition was one of America’s most powerful political groups. Fortune ranked it the seventh-most impactful lobbying interest in 1997. With many millions of evangelical voters, movement leaders like Robertson could sway elections. Today, despite still serving as a key voting bloc in the GOP, evangelicals don’t even have the political power to keep an anti-abortion plank in the Republican Party platform.
(American Compass 12/4/24) READ MORE>>>>>
Donald Trump delivered a profane and conspiracy-laden speech two days before Tuesday's presidential election, talking about reporters being shot and suggesting he “shouldn't have left” the White House after his 2020 loss to Democrat Joe Biden. In remarks Sunday that bore little resemblance to the speech he's been delivering at his recent rallies, the former president repeatedly cast doubt on the integrity of the vote and resurrected old grievances after trying to overturn his 2020 election defeat. Trump intensified his verbal attacks on what he cast as a “demonic” Democratic Party and the American media, steering his rally in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, at one point to the topic of violence against members of the press.
(US NEWS 7 World Report 11/3/24) READMORE>>>>>
JD Vance, the unctuous Republican VP candidate for President, appeared on CNN yesterday in an interview with Dana Bash. Using carefully couched answers to convey the impression of being normal, Vance pretended that he and his boss were interested in saving the country from various imaginary coming disasters (not including real ones like climate change or Christofascism). After the interview, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) posted to Xitter a reminder that Trump is the most cowardly schoolyard bully of all by listing a few insulting names Trump has used against him: "Shifty Schiff, pencil neck and watermelon head, would like a word, JD." (Boing Boing 8/9/24) READ MORE>>>>>
Former Vice President Mike Pence slammed the updated Republican National Committee platform Tuesday after GOP leaders abandoned explicitly endorsing a national abortion ban. “The RNC platform is a profound disappointment to the millions of pro-life Republicans that have always looked to the Republican Party to stand for life,” Pence said in a statement through his advocacy group Advancing American Freedom. (Politico 7/9/24) READ MORE>>>>>
Z-NOTE: January 31, 2024: Right wing activist Nick Sortor tweeted this yesterday:
I’ve been on the ground here on Maui speaking with countless residents, and they’re FED UP with Biden and his lack of support
The support for Donald Trump in Hawaii is at an ALL TIME HIGH, and a visit from him could change the entire trajectory of the relief effort and FORCE Biden to get it together.
What Nick Sortor is doing is Maganazi propaganda by going to places with problems.....magnifying them and then manufacturing rage...then blaming it all on the Biden administration. It's Maganazi bait and switch propaganda (Sorry for your pain; but this wouldnt have happened if Trump was here #doh).
Maganazi GOP has already made it clear that they want to blame everything on Biden and Democrats so they will look better in November 2024. It is imperative that all the Maganazi lies and propaganda be refuted. If Maganazis win in November America as we know it ends.
The Maganazis and Maganazi Evangelicals DO NOT support the Constitution of the USA and are busy rewriting history. (like pretending Jan 6 wasn't pro-Maganazi or inspired by their Maganazi God (ie, Donald Trump).
The battle also has to go beyond social media. Nick Sortor saying "support for Donald Trump in Hawaii is at an ALL TIME HIGH" is not true...but more likely high with the people he can manipulate and preach his false narrative to. Going after victims of a disaster is the lowest of propaganda styles but Maganazis have very little, if any, conscience left and is now a ploy for the Maganazi regime.
Most importantly: Donald "Adolph" Trump approves their message.
And BTW, Nick Sortor is vacation in Hawaii while pretending he is "uncovering" damages caused by the Biden administrations negligence.
What Another Trump Presidency Means To Evangelicals Around the World
As Americans headed to the polls Tuesday, the rest of the world watched to see who would become the 47th president of the United States. The election of Donald Trump affects many evangelical communities around the world in terms of foreign policy, foreign aid, religious freedom, and cultural trends. Nevertheless, Christian leaders in some countries noted that it didn’t make a difference to them who becomes the next president of the US. CT asked 26 evangelical leaders around the world about their reaction to another Trump presidency and its practical impact on the situation of evangelicals in their countries. The responses are broken up by region: Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, North America, the Middle East, and Oceania. CT will add more responses as they come in. Christianity Today 11/7/24) READ MORE>>>>>
July 31, 2023
Ed Rollins, a Republican strategist behind a PAC devoted to getting Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to run for president, who was the national campaign director for former President Ronald Reagan's 1984 presidential campaign, created the "Ready for Ron" political action committee (now known as "Ready to Win") in May 2022 with the express purpose of pushing DeSantis to run for office. But as DeSantis lags far behind Donald Trump in Republican primary polls, Rollins no longer thinks DeSantis is best suited to defeat the 45th president.
"I don't think it's the campaign's fault at all; it's his. I think he's been a very flawed candidate. I know some of the people around him, and some of them are good, talented people. But every time he opens his mouth, he has a tendency to — shall we say — think out-loud, and he clearly doesn't understand the game," Rollins told Rolling Stone. "When you get into these culture wars the way that he has, the vast majority of people don't understand what they are.
May 27, 2023:
It may be coming to the place where it would easier to count the people who are not being charged with a crime or pushing some bogus grift.
Prosecutors in Donald, the sexual predator, Trumps criminal case in New York have shared a recording of the former president speaking to a witness with Mr Trump’s legal team, according to CBS News.
The witness hasn’t been identified, a document made public by the prosecutorial office on Friday stated.Mr Trump’s other legal woes continue to mount as a maintenance worker has made a shocking claim about the handling of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago.
The worker recalled helping to move boxes into a storage room just one day before the Department of Justice visited Mar-a-Lago seeking the papers, reported The New York Times.
The worker didn’t know what the boxes contained at the time.
Ron DeSantis told radio host Matt Murphy that he was running to the right of Mr Trump and portrayed himself as more conservative, according to USA Today. DeSantis said: “It seems like he’s running to the left and I have always been somebody that’s just been moored in conservative principles."
And now from the Musk wing of the GOP/Trump crime family: Twitter has pulled out of the European Union's voluntary code to fight disinformation, the EU has said. Thierry Breton, who is the EU's internal market commissioner, announced the news on Twitter - but warned the firm new laws would force compliance. "Obligations remain. You can run but you can't hide," he said. Twitter will be legally required to fight disinformation in the EU from 25 August, he said, adding: "Our teams will be ready for enforcement."
Among the striking features of Donald J. Trump’s victory on November 5 is the emergence of a multi-ethnic coalition of blue-collar and middle-class voters. A key element of this coalition is religious conservatives, among whom evangelicals are a core component. Exit polling in 2024 reveals white evangelical support for Trump at 82 percent (compared with 76 percent in 2020 and 81 percent in 2016). Trump’s strength among evangelicals was sustained despite his increasing pragmatism on the social issues that are many of these voters’ primary motivation. While holding steady with evangelicals, Trump increased his support among religious-conservative swing cohorts such as Catholics and Latino Christians, who likewise, despite his deviations, appear to regard him as a champion of their values. This combination of old and new strengths powered Trump’s winning coalition—and raises the question of whether that coalition will be a lasting one. (First Things 12/6/24) READ MORE>>>>>
A whopping 80% of evangelicals voted for President-elect Donald Trump in 2024. But behind that headline number, the dramatic fall in these Christian’s cultural influence played a much more profound role in Trump’s victories than evangelical voters did. In the 1990s, evangelicals were a political force. Pat Robertson’s Christian Coalition was one of America’s most powerful political groups. Fortune ranked it the seventh-most impactful lobbying interest in 1997. With many millions of evangelical voters, movement leaders like Robertson could sway elections. Today, despite still serving as a key voting bloc in the GOP, evangelicals don’t even have the political power to keep an anti-abortion plank in the Republican Party platform.
(American Compass 12/4/24) READ MORE>>>>>
Donald Trump delivered a profane and conspiracy-laden speech two days before Tuesday's presidential election, talking about reporters being shot and suggesting he “shouldn't have left” the White House after his 2020 loss to Democrat Joe Biden. In remarks Sunday that bore little resemblance to the speech he's been delivering at his recent rallies, the former president repeatedly cast doubt on the integrity of the vote and resurrected old grievances after trying to overturn his 2020 election defeat. Trump intensified his verbal attacks on what he cast as a “demonic” Democratic Party and the American media, steering his rally in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, at one point to the topic of violence against members of the press.
(US NEWS 7 World Report 11/3/24) READMORE>>>>>
JD Vance, the unctuous Republican VP candidate for President, appeared on CNN yesterday in an interview with Dana Bash. Using carefully couched answers to convey the impression of being normal, Vance pretended that he and his boss were interested in saving the country from various imaginary coming disasters (not including real ones like climate change or Christofascism). After the interview, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) posted to Xitter a reminder that Trump is the most cowardly schoolyard bully of all by listing a few insulting names Trump has used against him: "Shifty Schiff, pencil neck and watermelon head, would like a word, JD." (Boing Boing 8/9/24) READ MORE>>>>>
Former Vice President Mike Pence slammed the updated Republican National Committee platform Tuesday after GOP leaders abandoned explicitly endorsing a national abortion ban. “The RNC platform is a profound disappointment to the millions of pro-life Republicans that have always looked to the Republican Party to stand for life,” Pence said in a statement through his advocacy group Advancing American Freedom. (Politico 7/9/24) READ MORE>>>>>
Z-NOTE: January 31, 2024: Right wing activist Nick Sortor tweeted this yesterday:
I’ve been on the ground here on Maui speaking with countless residents, and they’re FED UP with Biden and his lack of support
The support for Donald Trump in Hawaii is at an ALL TIME HIGH, and a visit from him could change the entire trajectory of the relief effort and FORCE Biden to get it together.
What Nick Sortor is doing is Maganazi propaganda by going to places with problems.....magnifying them and then manufacturing rage...then blaming it all on the Biden administration. It's Maganazi bait and switch propaganda (Sorry for your pain; but this wouldnt have happened if Trump was here #doh).
Maganazi GOP has already made it clear that they want to blame everything on Biden and Democrats so they will look better in November 2024. It is imperative that all the Maganazi lies and propaganda be refuted. If Maganazis win in November America as we know it ends.
The Maganazis and Maganazi Evangelicals DO NOT support the Constitution of the USA and are busy rewriting history. (like pretending Jan 6 wasn't pro-Maganazi or inspired by their Maganazi God (ie, Donald Trump).
The battle also has to go beyond social media. Nick Sortor saying "support for Donald Trump in Hawaii is at an ALL TIME HIGH" is not true...but more likely high with the people he can manipulate and preach his false narrative to. Going after victims of a disaster is the lowest of propaganda styles but Maganazis have very little, if any, conscience left and is now a ploy for the Maganazi regime.
Most importantly: Donald "Adolph" Trump approves their message.
And BTW, Nick Sortor is vacation in Hawaii while pretending he is "uncovering" damages caused by the Biden administrations negligence.
What Another Trump Presidency Means To Evangelicals Around the World
As Americans headed to the polls Tuesday, the rest of the world watched to see who would become the 47th president of the United States. The election of Donald Trump affects many evangelical communities around the world in terms of foreign policy, foreign aid, religious freedom, and cultural trends. Nevertheless, Christian leaders in some countries noted that it didn’t make a difference to them who becomes the next president of the US. CT asked 26 evangelical leaders around the world about their reaction to another Trump presidency and its practical impact on the situation of evangelicals in their countries. The responses are broken up by region: Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, North America, the Middle East, and Oceania. CT will add more responses as they come in. Christianity Today 11/7/24) READ MORE>>>>>
July 31, 2023
Ed Rollins, a Republican strategist behind a PAC devoted to getting Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to run for president, who was the national campaign director for former President Ronald Reagan's 1984 presidential campaign, created the "Ready for Ron" political action committee (now known as "Ready to Win") in May 2022 with the express purpose of pushing DeSantis to run for office. But as DeSantis lags far behind Donald Trump in Republican primary polls, Rollins no longer thinks DeSantis is best suited to defeat the 45th president.
"I don't think it's the campaign's fault at all; it's his. I think he's been a very flawed candidate. I know some of the people around him, and some of them are good, talented people. But every time he opens his mouth, he has a tendency to — shall we say — think out-loud, and he clearly doesn't understand the game," Rollins told Rolling Stone. "When you get into these culture wars the way that he has, the vast majority of people don't understand what they are.
May 27, 2023:
It may be coming to the place where it would easier to count the people who are not being charged with a crime or pushing some bogus grift.
Prosecutors in Donald, the sexual predator, Trumps criminal case in New York have shared a recording of the former president speaking to a witness with Mr Trump’s legal team, according to CBS News.
The witness hasn’t been identified, a document made public by the prosecutorial office on Friday stated.Mr Trump’s other legal woes continue to mount as a maintenance worker has made a shocking claim about the handling of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago.
The worker recalled helping to move boxes into a storage room just one day before the Department of Justice visited Mar-a-Lago seeking the papers, reported The New York Times.
The worker didn’t know what the boxes contained at the time.
Ron DeSantis told radio host Matt Murphy that he was running to the right of Mr Trump and portrayed himself as more conservative, according to USA Today. DeSantis said: “It seems like he’s running to the left and I have always been somebody that’s just been moored in conservative principles."
And now from the Musk wing of the GOP/Trump crime family: Twitter has pulled out of the European Union's voluntary code to fight disinformation, the EU has said. Thierry Breton, who is the EU's internal market commissioner, announced the news on Twitter - but warned the firm new laws would force compliance. "Obligations remain. You can run but you can't hide," he said. Twitter will be legally required to fight disinformation in the EU from 25 August, he said, adding: "Our teams will be ready for enforcement."
Anthea Butler
“I think that we need to talk about Catholicism and democracy together because it's a really important focus of this election cycle....I believe that Vice President Kamala Harris is the best person, along with Tim Walz, to put us in a place where democracy will stay in place, first of all, and secondarily that we as Catholics will be able to explore and express our faith in ways that are alongside the teachings of the Catholic Church. One of the things I think that we have always been accused of historically as Catholics is wanting to have the pope run the country,” she said, noting a popular anti-Catholic strain of thought in American politics. We have seen with Joe Biden that's not simply the case… He is faithful to his Catholic tradition. He has not tried to impose that, but what he has done is hold up democracy. And I believe that Vice President Kamala Harris will do the same thing.” -Anthea Butler; Catholics for Harris-Walz National Organizing Call 9/18/24
E.W. Jackson Declares That God Will Not Allow Kamala Harris to Become President
The Truth and Liberty Coalition, a Christian nationalist organization founded by right-wing evangelists Andrew Wommack and Lance Wallnau, is hosting its annual conference at Wommack’s Charis Bible College in Colorado this week. Wommack and Wallnau are promoters of Seven Mountains Dominionism, an ideology pushed by leaders of the New Apostolic Reformation movement Among the speakers during the first session on Thursday night was far-right pastor and perennial failed political candidate E.W. Jackson, who fired up those in the crowd by assuring them that God will not allow Vice President Kamala Harris to become president.“I’m also here to declare in the name of Jesus that we are not going to allow a bunch of Marxists and socialists and communists and a bunch of sexual perverts and a bunch of political power-grabbers [to] take our country and lead it in a direction that is not pleasing to Almighty God!” Jackson declared. “America is going to remain one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”
(Right Wing Watch 9/13/24) READ MORE>>>>>
The Truth and Liberty Coalition, a Christian nationalist organization founded by right-wing evangelists Andrew Wommack and Lance Wallnau, is hosting its annual conference at Wommack’s Charis Bible College in Colorado this week. Wommack and Wallnau are promoters of Seven Mountains Dominionism, an ideology pushed by leaders of the New Apostolic Reformation movement Among the speakers during the first session on Thursday night was far-right pastor and perennial failed political candidate E.W. Jackson, who fired up those in the crowd by assuring them that God will not allow Vice President Kamala Harris to become president.“I’m also here to declare in the name of Jesus that we are not going to allow a bunch of Marxists and socialists and communists and a bunch of sexual perverts and a bunch of political power-grabbers [to] take our country and lead it in a direction that is not pleasing to Almighty God!” Jackson declared. “America is going to remain one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”
(Right Wing Watch 9/13/24) READ MORE>>>>>
Z-NOTE: September 8, 2024:
That "Border Wall" Again...
 Zorek Richards
S.A. McCarthy is a Christian Nationalist "for Jesus". He is right winger and has written this op ed for the Christian Post. He writes for other right wing newspapers and magazines. He blames Harris for border problems which is not totally true. In a post published today at the Christian Post, he wrote that "Vice President Kamala Harris is trying to be unburdened by what has been — namely her far-left political record — by adopting MAGA policies. The latest instance of flip-flopping is Harris’s support for the border wall proposed by former President Donald Trump. According to Axios, the vice president is now pledging to spend an estimated $650 million to complete the border wall Trump started, despite having called the initiative “racist” and “un-American” during Trump’s White House tenure."
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Guide To The US Presidential Candidates: What They Say About Their Faith
The United States will hold a presidential election on Nov. 5. It will mark the 60th presidential election in American history and the first after the reallocation of electoral college votes since 2020. Both President Joe Biden and his Republican challenger Donald Trump became their party’s presumptive nominees on March 12 following a short primary season. Biden, however, dropped out of the race on July 21 ahead of the Democratic National Convention. Biden tossed his support to his running mate, Vice President Kamala Harris. The party has yet to name a nominee. Here’s a guide to the 2024 U.S. presidential candidates, their religious affiliations and a notable statement they have made about faith: (Religion Unplugged 8/17/24) READ MORE>>>>>
The United States will hold a presidential election on Nov. 5. It will mark the 60th presidential election in American history and the first after the reallocation of electoral college votes since 2020. Both President Joe Biden and his Republican challenger Donald Trump became their party’s presumptive nominees on March 12 following a short primary season. Biden, however, dropped out of the race on July 21 ahead of the Democratic National Convention. Biden tossed his support to his running mate, Vice President Kamala Harris. The party has yet to name a nominee. Here’s a guide to the 2024 U.S. presidential candidates, their religious affiliations and a notable statement they have made about faith: (Religion Unplugged 8/17/24) READ MORE>>>>>
Politics in the Pews: Evangelical Christian engagement in elections from the Moral Majority to today
The Christian Post's year-long article series "Politics in the Pews: Evangelical Christian engagement in elections from the Moral Majority to today" analyzes issues about election integrity and new ways of getting out the vote, including churches participating in ballot collection. With the 2024 presidential election cycle in full swing, the series paints a picture of how Evangelical involvement in politics has evolved from the Moral Majority movement of the 1980s to more organized yet fractured efforts to mobilize Christian voters today. Our team of reporters looks into issues Evangelicals say matter most to them ahead of the election, as well as the political engagement of politically and ethnically diverse Christian groups. (Christian Post 5/16/24) READ MORE>>>>>
The Christian Post's year-long article series "Politics in the Pews: Evangelical Christian engagement in elections from the Moral Majority to today" analyzes issues about election integrity and new ways of getting out the vote, including churches participating in ballot collection. With the 2024 presidential election cycle in full swing, the series paints a picture of how Evangelical involvement in politics has evolved from the Moral Majority movement of the 1980s to more organized yet fractured efforts to mobilize Christian voters today. Our team of reporters looks into issues Evangelicals say matter most to them ahead of the election, as well as the political engagement of politically and ethnically diverse Christian groups. (Christian Post 5/16/24) READ MORE>>>>>
Man’s chief end is not political obsession
We’re only briefly into the new year and with the Iowa caucuses in the history books and the first-in-the-nation New Hampshire primary today, the commentary around evangelicals and Trump is already exhausting. Last week’s caucuses came with all the predictable commentary of the large percentage of evangelical Christians who voted for Trump. Leave aside all of the legitimate questions about the theological identity of those “evangelical” Christians. Everyone, it seems, can get their fix filtering contemporary American life through evangelicals and their support for Trump. We might call this the worldview of reductio ad Trumpum or, to put it in a Protestant gloss, sola Trumpa—all things, everywhere and always, are interpreted through the aura of Donald Trump.(Andrew Walker/World/The Stream 1/23/24) READ MORE>>>>>
We’re only briefly into the new year and with the Iowa caucuses in the history books and the first-in-the-nation New Hampshire primary today, the commentary around evangelicals and Trump is already exhausting. Last week’s caucuses came with all the predictable commentary of the large percentage of evangelical Christians who voted for Trump. Leave aside all of the legitimate questions about the theological identity of those “evangelical” Christians. Everyone, it seems, can get their fix filtering contemporary American life through evangelicals and their support for Trump. We might call this the worldview of reductio ad Trumpum or, to put it in a Protestant gloss, sola Trumpa—all things, everywhere and always, are interpreted through the aura of Donald Trump.(Andrew Walker/World/The Stream 1/23/24) READ MORE>>>>>
How Trump Is Securing the Evangelical Vote Ahead of Iowa
When Donald Trump launched his 2024 presidential campaign, many prominent evangelical leaders were wary of declaring their support. Others outright opposed him. But with just a few days to go before the Iowa caucuses, the former president seems destined to lock up the pivotal evangelical bloc in the Republican primary. That likely outcome would erase more than a year of anti-Trump campaigning by Iowa’s Bob Vander Plaats, a conservative evangelical power broker who is backing Florida governor Ron DeSantis. Of course, disapproval from established evangelical leaders amounts to little when the laity so fervently backs Trump. A December poll from NBC News, The Des Moines Register, and Mediacom found that 51% of Iowa evangelicals support Trump, nearly double the share backing DeSantis. And though Vander Plaats is hoping for something like a repeat of 2016—when Trump lost Iowa to the more evangelical-tinged Ted Cruz campaign—anything outside of a total Trump victory seems unlikely: He currently leads his closest competitors, DeSantis and former UN ambassador Nikki Haley, by more than 30 points among likely Republican voters in the state.
(Caleb Ecarma/Vanity Fair 1/12/24)
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When Donald Trump launched his 2024 presidential campaign, many prominent evangelical leaders were wary of declaring their support. Others outright opposed him. But with just a few days to go before the Iowa caucuses, the former president seems destined to lock up the pivotal evangelical bloc in the Republican primary. That likely outcome would erase more than a year of anti-Trump campaigning by Iowa’s Bob Vander Plaats, a conservative evangelical power broker who is backing Florida governor Ron DeSantis. Of course, disapproval from established evangelical leaders amounts to little when the laity so fervently backs Trump. A December poll from NBC News, The Des Moines Register, and Mediacom found that 51% of Iowa evangelicals support Trump, nearly double the share backing DeSantis. And though Vander Plaats is hoping for something like a repeat of 2016—when Trump lost Iowa to the more evangelical-tinged Ted Cruz campaign—anything outside of a total Trump victory seems unlikely: He currently leads his closest competitors, DeSantis and former UN ambassador Nikki Haley, by more than 30 points among likely Republican voters in the state.
(Caleb Ecarma/Vanity Fair 1/12/24)
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Evangelical leaders ask biblical immigration solutions of presidential candidates
GREENVILLE, S.C. (BP) – The Evangelical Immigration Table and World Relief issued a letter Jan. 11 to U.S. presidential candidates urging them to consider biblical principles when drafting solutions to the immigration crisis. The groups announced the letter, signed by more than 500 evangelical Christians, in a press call featuring leaders from Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina in advance of the Jan. 15 Iowa Caucuses. Concurrently, the groups issued the “I Was a Stranger” Challenge, a 40-day Scripture reading and prayer guide designed to lead candidates and the Christian public to view immigration matters through a godly heart.
(Dana Chandler/Bibllical Recorder 1/12/24)
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GREENVILLE, S.C. (BP) – The Evangelical Immigration Table and World Relief issued a letter Jan. 11 to U.S. presidential candidates urging them to consider biblical principles when drafting solutions to the immigration crisis. The groups announced the letter, signed by more than 500 evangelical Christians, in a press call featuring leaders from Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina in advance of the Jan. 15 Iowa Caucuses. Concurrently, the groups issued the “I Was a Stranger” Challenge, a 40-day Scripture reading and prayer guide designed to lead candidates and the Christian public to view immigration matters through a godly heart.
(Dana Chandler/Bibllical Recorder 1/12/24)
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Iowa 'kingmaker' on the GOP race and white evangelical vote
The Iowa caucuses are now just three days away, which means the candidates are making their final pitches to a coveted group of voters: white evangelicals. Bob Vander Plaats is perhaps Iowa’s most recognizable and influential evangelical leader and is often called a kingmaker in Iowa politics. Lisa Desjardins sat down with him in Des Moines to discuss the GOP race (PBS News Hour 1/12/24) |
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Prove You're Not 'Easily Led,' Evangelicals!
In 1986, The New York Times described evangelicals as "more easily led than other kinds of voters." Then in 1993, The Washington Post reported that evangelicals were "largely poor, uneducated and easy to command." (The Washington Post issued a correction; the Times did not.)For the past week, the media have been trying to prove the truth of those characterizations, gleefully reporting on the comical reasons Iowa evangelicals give for their stalwart support of Donald Trump.(Ann Coulter/Townhall/Sight 1/10/24) READ MORE>>>>> |
What Christian moral theology has to say about Trump’s eligibility for office
(RNS) — The current dispute over former President Donald Trump’s eligibility to run for office poses a moral as well as a legal and political dilemma. While the Constitution, our sacred rulebook, indicates that he may have disqualified himself with his actions on and around Jan. 6, 2021, there’s a powerful sense that, in a democratic republic, it should be up to the voters to decide whether he did or not, or whether they want him for president anyway. At issue is Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, which bars from public office anyone who, having taken an oath to support the Constitution, “shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof.” (Mark Silk/Religion News Service 1/2/24)
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(RNS) — The current dispute over former President Donald Trump’s eligibility to run for office poses a moral as well as a legal and political dilemma. While the Constitution, our sacred rulebook, indicates that he may have disqualified himself with his actions on and around Jan. 6, 2021, there’s a powerful sense that, in a democratic republic, it should be up to the voters to decide whether he did or not, or whether they want him for president anyway. At issue is Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, which bars from public office anyone who, having taken an oath to support the Constitution, “shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof.” (Mark Silk/Religion News Service 1/2/24)
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We need to hear from the presidential candidates about poverty
In the run-up to Election Day in 2020, then-presidential candidate Joe Biden delivered a major address on strategies to reduce U.S. poverty. To his credit, that strategy was later reflected in his Build Back Better program, much of it passed in the first year of the Biden administration. Its pandemic relief and recovery measures, some of them approved on a bipartisan basis, provided needed assistance, kept unemployment low and reduced poverty in America to its lowest level in history. A diverse coalition of church leaders called the Circle of Protection, working with the Poor People’s Campaign, helped convince Biden to give that big speech about poverty. Starting with outreach to the Obama and Romney campaigns in 2012, the group had been working for years to get presidential candidates to explain how they would provide more opportunity to people struggling with poverty and hunger. Our simple ask has been for the candidates from the two major parties to make videos explaining their policies on poverty. In the 2016 and 2020 elections, nearly all candidates in both parties made videos. Donald Trump submitted a written statement in 2016. (David Beckman/ Religion News 11/24/23)
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In the run-up to Election Day in 2020, then-presidential candidate Joe Biden delivered a major address on strategies to reduce U.S. poverty. To his credit, that strategy was later reflected in his Build Back Better program, much of it passed in the first year of the Biden administration. Its pandemic relief and recovery measures, some of them approved on a bipartisan basis, provided needed assistance, kept unemployment low and reduced poverty in America to its lowest level in history. A diverse coalition of church leaders called the Circle of Protection, working with the Poor People’s Campaign, helped convince Biden to give that big speech about poverty. Starting with outreach to the Obama and Romney campaigns in 2012, the group had been working for years to get presidential candidates to explain how they would provide more opportunity to people struggling with poverty and hunger. Our simple ask has been for the candidates from the two major parties to make videos explaining their policies on poverty. In the 2016 and 2020 elections, nearly all candidates in both parties made videos. Donald Trump submitted a written statement in 2016. (David Beckman/ Religion News 11/24/23)
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Trump ripped ‘so-called Christian’ evangelicals as ‘pieces of s–t’: book
Cruz had been making hay of Trump’s flub before an audience at Virginia’s Liberty University, a conservative evangelical college, in which he botched a question about his favorite Bible verse and replied that it came from the book of “Two Corinthians,” rather than “Second Corinthians.” “The laughter and ridicule were embarrassing enough for Trump,” Tim Alberta writes in his new book, “The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism,” an excerpt of which was reported by the Guardian.
(Josh Christensen/New York Post 11/24/23)
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Cruz had been making hay of Trump’s flub before an audience at Virginia’s Liberty University, a conservative evangelical college, in which he botched a question about his favorite Bible verse and replied that it came from the book of “Two Corinthians,” rather than “Second Corinthians.” “The laughter and ridicule were embarrassing enough for Trump,” Tim Alberta writes in his new book, “The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism,” an excerpt of which was reported by the Guardian.
(Josh Christensen/New York Post 11/24/23)
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Trump ripped ‘so-called Christian’ evangelicals as ‘pieces of s–t’: book
Cruz had been making hay of Trump’s flub before an audience at Virginia’s Liberty University, a conservative evangelical college, in which he botched a question about his favorite Bible verse and replied that it came from the book of “Two Corinthians,” rather than “Second Corinthians.” “The laughter and ridicule were embarrassing enough for Trump,” Tim Alberta writes in his new book, “The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism,” an excerpt of which was reported by the Guardian.
(Josh Christensen/New York Post 11/24/23)
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Cruz had been making hay of Trump’s flub before an audience at Virginia’s Liberty University, a conservative evangelical college, in which he botched a question about his favorite Bible verse and replied that it came from the book of “Two Corinthians,” rather than “Second Corinthians.” “The laughter and ridicule were embarrassing enough for Trump,” Tim Alberta writes in his new book, “The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism,” an excerpt of which was reported by the Guardian.
(Josh Christensen/New York Post 11/24/23)
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Do evangelicals make up that large share of the electorate compared to Black, Hispanic and union voters? The short answer is: no. White born-again or evangelical Christians made up 24 percent of the electorate in the 2022 elections, according to the media consortium exit poll conducted for CNN, ABC, NBC, and CBS. Black (11 percent) and Latino (11 percent) voters and those from a union household (18 percent) combined to comprise 40 percent of the vote.
A second exit poll, conducted for Fox News, The Associated Press, and The Wall Street Journal broke out voters who were union members (11 percent) and voters who had a union member in their household (6 percent), but the end result was the same.
White evangelicals made up 20 percent of the electorate in 2022, according to the second exit poll, while Black (11 percent), Hispanic (10 percent) and union members (11 percent) combined for 32 percent of the electorate. Adding in voters in a union household, that coalition ticketed up 38 percent — nearly double the white evangelical vote. Are white evangelicals poised for a huge turnout in 2024? It’s possible, but not likely ---Nathan L. Gonzales; Roll Call;Be skeptical of the ‘wave’ of evangelical voters 6.28.23
A second exit poll, conducted for Fox News, The Associated Press, and The Wall Street Journal broke out voters who were union members (11 percent) and voters who had a union member in their household (6 percent), but the end result was the same.
White evangelicals made up 20 percent of the electorate in 2022, according to the second exit poll, while Black (11 percent), Hispanic (10 percent) and union members (11 percent) combined for 32 percent of the electorate. Adding in voters in a union household, that coalition ticketed up 38 percent — nearly double the white evangelical vote. Are white evangelicals poised for a huge turnout in 2024? It’s possible, but not likely ---Nathan L. Gonzales; Roll Call;Be skeptical of the ‘wave’ of evangelical voters 6.28.23
June 25, 2023: BollyInside:Trump appeals to evangelical voters in crucial 2024 GOP performance
Former President Donald Trump addressed evangelical Christian voters at the Faith & Freedom Coalition’s Road to Majority Policy Conference in Washington. He emphasized the importance of the federal government’s role in restricting abortion but did not specify any legislation he would support. Trump has avoided answering whether he would sign a federal abortion ban. The conference served as an opportunity for GOP presidential hopefuls to appeal to evangelical voters, who have significant influence in key primary states like Iowa and South Carolina. Trump highlighted his appointment of three Supreme Court justices who voted to overturn Roe v. Wade. This was Trump’s first in-person appearance at a 2024 presidential hopefuls gathering.
Former President Donald Trump addressed evangelical Christian voters at the Faith & Freedom Coalition’s Road to Majority Policy Conference in Washington. He emphasized the importance of the federal government’s role in restricting abortion but did not specify any legislation he would support. Trump has avoided answering whether he would sign a federal abortion ban. The conference served as an opportunity for GOP presidential hopefuls to appeal to evangelical voters, who have significant influence in key primary states like Iowa and South Carolina. Trump highlighted his appointment of three Supreme Court justices who voted to overturn Roe v. Wade. This was Trump’s first in-person appearance at a 2024 presidential hopefuls gathering.