US ELECTION 2024
election 2024
The 2024 United States presidential election will be the 60th quadrennial presidential election, scheduled for Tuesday, November 5, 2024. Voters will elect a president and vice president for a term of four years. 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 to a second,
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>>>>>
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>>>>>
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.”
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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.”
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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.