Kamala Harris is not winning over many evangelical voters with recent comments on abortion. Here are a couple of lines from a Fox News story:
Pro-life groups are livid at Vice President Kamala Harris after she took an uncompromising position on abortion rights at odds with many faith-based health care providers.
Harris told NBC’s Hallie Jackson on Tuesday that she does not support religious exemptions for abortion and would not make any concessions on that issue, if elected, under a potentially divided government.
“I donāt think we should be making concessions when weāre talking about a fundamental freedom to make decisions about your own body,” Harris said in the interview.
There is a lot of fearmongering in the article. Like this: “She is setting the stage to put Catholic doctors in jail, to strip medical licenses from Catholic physicians and to shut down Catholic health care as we know it.” I don’t know if this will happen or not. But Harris seems to be doing little to put such fears to rest.
As someone who is voting for Harris for the primary purpose of bringing an end to Trump’s political career, this is the kind of stuff that makes me nervous about Election Day.
The Federalist has gone as far to say that Harris “hates Christians.” Seems a bit over the top, don’t you think? But it doesn’t really matter if it is true, as long as people believe it.
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Over the last several roundups I have called attention to a George Barna survey that indicated 104 million “people of faith” will not vote in November. I don’t know what to make of this survey. Most academic sociologists I know do not trust Barna. I don’t know why they don’t trust him. I am not a sociologist. Yet on matters like this I tend to lean toward academic expertise.
I do know one thing: Conservative evangelicals are freaking out over Barna’s findings. Take, for example, disgraced former Trump “election fraud” lawyer Jenna Ellis. I don’t know when Jenna Ellis became an expert on politics, but Politico apparently thinks her opinion is important. Here is a taste of a recent interview:
What should the Trump campaign be doing?
Driving out the early voting, especially among self-identified Christians. A recent Barna survey indicated 104 million people of faith, including 35 million regular churchgoers, are projected to abstain from the 2024 election. Trump must give Christians reasons to turn out and vote for him: direct promises on pro-life, strong judicial appointments and protecting religious freedom.
For Jenna, the decision in November is pretty clear:
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What’s happening on X?:
The Faith & Freedom Coalition is still on the ground:
Kamala throws red meat to the Christian Right nearly every time she talks about religion:
This is Metaxas’s way of dealing with this:
Mike Pompeo has thoughts on the election:
Tony and his guest on abortion and the filibuster:
More Tony:
Translation: Vote for Trump:
Trump’s “spiritual adviser” has more to say:
A court evangelical doing court evangelical things:
What Franklin REALLY means is “join me in VOTING for him”:
It looks like Al Mohler is voting again for Trump:
Mike Huckabee is hoping people will sober-up:
It’s time to check-in on the theobros:
A good lesson. One that I have learned the hard way over the years:
When George does speak I don’t think Sean Feucht is going to like what he says:
Apparently no prayers for Kamala:
A fair point from Christianity Today podcaster Mike Cosper:
Translation: Vote for Trump:
LeCrae hosts a debate:
Thanks to Emma Bell for her help in compiling this roundup.