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2016 Election

Chris Christie is running for president

John Fea   |  June 1, 2023

The former New Jersey governor is in. I heard a commentator say that Christie’s “lane” to the GOP nomination “runs through Donald Trump.” Will Trump get the Rubio treatment? Whatever happens, it should be entertaining:...

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Donald Trump in 2016 on “classified information”

John Fea   |  August 14, 2022

From The Washington Post:...

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What Obama and Biden thought about Trump’s election

John Fea   |  May 21, 2021

Over at The Atlantic, Caroline Mimbs Nyce interviews Edward-Isaac Dovere, author of the upcoming book Battle for the Soul: Inside the Democrats’ Campaigns to Defeat Trump. Here is a taste: Initially, President Obama seemed pretty restrained when commenting on the 45th...

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Trump endorses Rubio

John Fea   |  April 10, 2021

My how things have changed:...

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Trump evangelical Eric Metaxas makes sense of impeachment through the lens of charismatic prophets

John Fea   |  February 10, 2021

Today the House Managers in the second Donald Trump impeachment trial have been arguing that the former president incited the insurrection on the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021 and should thus be convicted of such a high crime....

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There was no singular evangelical Trump voter

John Fea   |  February 6, 2021

The title of this post plays off of Henry Olsen’s recent Washington Post column: “There is no singular Trump voter.” Here is a taste: The motivation behind voters’ support for President Donald Trump has been a source of intense speculation...

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Early Trump supporters in their own words

John Fea   |  January 27, 2021

Over at The Atlantic, Conor Friedersdorf shares the thoughts of some of Trump’s earliest supporters. Here is a taste: …the fourth correspondent claimed in 2015 that “Trump is refreshingly blunt, honest, and pro-American.” Today? “Trump will go down as the...

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Antifa! Antifa! The court evangelicals prepare for spiritual warfare against Biden and the Democrats

John Fea   |  January 8, 2021

We are learning more and more about the mob that invaded the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday. They were Trump-supporters, extreme Christian nationalists, QAnon believers, militia groups, and other assorted thugs. Mo Brooks, a Republican representative from Alabama, still believes that...

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Let’s set the record straight on what Mike Pence can and cannot do at tomorrow’s certification of the Electoral College results

John Fea   |  January 5, 2021

Donald Trump seems to believe that Mike Pence can overturn the votes of the Electoral College tomorrow when Congress certifies the results. Here is Trump last night in Georgia: And earlier today: CNN is reporting that Trump and Pence had...

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Evangelicals are the “Trumpiest demographic in America”

John Fea   |  December 22, 2020

Over at Christianity Today, Bonnie Kristian asks: “Are the Eighty-One Percent Evangelicals?” The subtitle of her piece is also revealing: “Just because people claim the name shouldn’t automatically imply they heed what it means.” Here is a taste: Evangelical support for President […]

What Trump said about his “landslide victory” in 2016

John Fea   |  November 13, 2020

Here is the current map: Watch the first few minutes of this video: If you keep watching beyond the first several minutes you will hear Anthony Scaramucci say this:

Prediction: The American people will overwhelmingly reject Trump in this election

John Fea   |  November 3, 2020

This was not a difficult prediction. Hillary Clinton beat Trump by 3 million votes. Biden will defeat Trump by more. Of course elections are not decided by the national popular vote. If they were, Trump would not be president....

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“Such a move is not for the faint of heart. It requires courage”

John Fea   |  November 2, 2020

Some 2016 Trump voters are voting for Biden in 2020. Here is a taste of Carol Kuruvilla’s piece at Huffington Post: The emotional heavy lifting white evangelical voters need to do to move away from the Republican Party is no […]

The new CNN poll is damning for Trump

John Fea   |  October 7, 2020

We still have four weeks go, but if this poll holds up, Biden will win in a blow-out. Here are a few things that caught my eye: Nationally, Biden leads 57% to 41%. 48% of Americans approve of how Trump...

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“I hope this person believes this. Some days I am not even sure I do.”

John Fea   |  October 2, 2020

Like most people, I sat down early Tuesday evening, November 8, 2016, to watch election returns fully expecting that, by the time I went to bed, Hillary Clinton would be declared the country’s first female president. Instead, I saw my...

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Remember when Donald Trump said the IRS audits him because he is a “strong Christian”?

John Fea   |  September 29, 2020

February 26, 2016:...

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The real question about tonight’s debate: Will a new Ken Bone emerge?

John Fea   |  September 29, 2020

Watch: UPDATE (September 20, 2020, 10:11am): Someone just reminded me that the format of tonight’s debate is not a town hall. We will need to wait until October 15 to see if a new Ken Bone emerges.

Trump’s Supreme Court appointee should get a hearing and a vote

John Fea   |  September 21, 2020

Article II of the United States Constitution states that the President: …shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur; and he shall nominate, and...

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Michael Cohen links the “killing” of racy photos to Jerry Falwell Jr.’s Trump endorsement in 2016

John Fea   |  September 9, 2020

Here is Aram Roston at Reuters: In his book released today, Michael Cohen, the former fixer for U.S. President Donald Trump, ties for the first time the 2016 presidential endorsement of Trump by American evangelical leader Jerry Falwell Jr to...

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Episode 73: Cowboy Evangelicalism

John Fea   |  August 9, 2020

What does it mean to be a man in white evangelical Christianity? In this episode we talk with historian Kristin Kobes Du Mez, author of Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation. We discuss...

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