Earlier this week, a group called “Evangelicals for Harris” met on a ZOOM call to explain why evangelicals should vote for Kamala Harris. Who are these “Evangelicals for Harris?” In a recent essay at the Journal of the American Academy […]
2024 presidential election
“Evangelicals for Harris” releases an ad. Is this a pro-Harris or anti-Trump movement?
The group “Evangelicals for Harris” just released its first political ad. The ad makes me wonder: Is “Evangelicals for Harris” a pro-Harris political movement or an anti-Trump movement.? Watch the ad: Franklin Graham is not happy with the use of […]
“It’s like he’s choosing to lose”
Gabriel Sherman, writing at Vanity Fair, informs us that Republican donors and Trump campaign officials are “struggling to understand why Trump seems to be sabotaging his own candidacy”: Trump has been in a self-destructive spiral since the moment Democrats replaced Joe […]
Franklin & Marshall Poll: Harris leads Trump; Casey leads McCormick
Here is a taste: Vice President Harris leads Donald Trump in Pennsylvania, 46% to 43%. The main reasons that Harris voters are supporting her candidacy include anti-Trumpism (18%), women’s rights (17%), character (15%), partisanship (13%), and democracy (13%). The top […]
How Harris is transcending Trump
E.J. Dionne is right: The sudden and radical shift in the trajectory of the 2024 campaign owes to more than the replacement of President Joe Biden with Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic candidate. To a degree that’s still not fully appreciated, Harris […]
Trumpism is straight out of the 1980s
Maybe when Trump says “Make America Great Again” he has the 1980s in mind. Here is a taste of Michael Grasso’s Jacobin piece, “Donald Trump and the ’80s Aesthetic“: When Terry “Hulk Hogan” Bollea stood onstage at the Republican National […]
David French is voting for Harris-Walz. What are his fellow evangelicals saying about the decision?
In his most recent New York Times column, David French announced that he will be voting for Harris-Walz in November in order to “save conservatism from itself.” Here is a taste: It is fascinating to me that there are voices […]
“What deporting 15 million people would look like”
Every now and then I hear or read something about Donald Trump doing well among Hispanics. As Mexican journalist LeĂłn Krauze argues, Hispanic voters who support the former president need to know exactly what he is planning. Here is a […]
“Evangelicals for Harris” speakers named on the day after we learn more about Tim Walz’s extreme views on abortion
In his 2010 book To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, & Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World, University of Virginia sociologist James Davison Hunter argued that both the Christian Right and the Evangelical Left were guilty of […]
Is Tim Walz an “unhinged moral degenerate?” Is he “demonic?”
Recently, conservatives–especially conservative Christians–have said some pretty bad things about Tim Walz, Kamala Harris’s VP pick. As we noted in our recent roundups of evangelical responses to the Harris-Walz ticket, some evangelicals are calling Walz an “unhinged moral degenerate,” “demonic,” […]
Steve Martin will NOT play Tim Walz on Saturday Night Live
Martin told Lorne Michaels that he is “not an impressionist.” He added: “You need someone who can really nail the guy. I was picked because I have gray hair and glasses.” More here.
More evangelical responses to the Harris-Walz ticket
Building off of last night’s roundup, here are more evangelical reactions to the Harris-Walz ticket. David French can’t catch a break! 🙂 A New Jersey Baptist responds to a Southern Baptist. Don’t mess with a pastor from Morristown, New Jersey: […]
Yeah, stuff like this will really grow the party and win undecided voters
Donald Trump last night on Truth Social. He appears to be losing it:
Who are the “elites” in this election?
I’m looking forward to Will Bunch’s column on Tim Walz: And let’s not forget Walz’s master’s degree in educational leadership from Mankato State and Harris’s law degree from the San Francisco campus of the University California law school.
Tim Walz: Springsteen fan
In case you missed it last night, Democratic VP presumptive nominee Tim Walz talked about a Springsteen concert he attended with Pennsylvania governor Josh Shapiro: As governor of Minnesota, Walz declared March 5, 2023 “Bruce Springsteen Day” in the state. […]
What are evangelicals saying about the Harris-Walz ticket?
This morning Kamala Harris announced her running mate. It is Minnesota governor Tim Walz. What are evangelicals saying? Michael Wear offers “guidance”: Sean Feucht has his “cringe meter” on: Liberty University’s Standing for Freedom Center: Demonic: David French will take […]
Kamala Harris picks Minnesota governor Tim Walz as her running mate
Here is CNN: Vice President Kamala Harris has made a decision on her running mate, with four people close to the process saying Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota is her choice. The selection caps the Midwestern Democrat’s short but swift ascent from […]
The RFK Jr. bear story is bizarre
In case you missed it, here is Emma Fitzsimmons of The New York Times: Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the independent presidential candidate, confessed on Sunday that he had left a dead bear cub in Central Park in Manhattan in 2014 […]
“San Francisco liberal.” “San Francisco liberal.” “San Francisco liberal.” “San Francisco liberal.” “San Francisco liberal.”
In an interview with CNN’s John Berman, Arkansas senator Tom Cotton reveals how the GOP will go after Kamala Harris over the course of the next several months. Watch Cotton avoid nearly every one of Berman’s questions.:
J.D. Vance “turns the shame of drinking Mountain Dew into a source of class and race resentment”
Mountain Dew is in the news these days, thanks to vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance. Watch: Over at The Atlantic, Ian Bogost gives us a fascinating history lesson on the drink that got me through a lot of late night […]