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Kamala Harris

Taylor Swift, the “childless cat lady,” endorses Kamala Harris

John Fea   |  September 11, 2024

Taylor has mobilized the Swifties. The election is over. 🙂 Trump has already responded.

“JD Vance loves Ohio State and Project 2025”

John Fea   |  September 8, 2024

If you were in the “Big House” to see Texas trounce Michigan on Saturday, you may have noticed a small plane pulling a banner that read “JD Vance Loves Ohio State + Project 2025.’ The Democratic National Committee paid for […]

Dick Cheney is voting for Kamala Harris

John Fea   |  September 6, 2024

Liz Cheney, the former GOP member of Congress and vice chair of the House January 6 Committee, announced this week that she will be voting for Kamala Harris in November. Today we learned that her father, former vice-president Dick Cheney, […]

On “pushing MAGA back to the periphery of American life”

John Fea   |  August 30, 2024

David French writes: “There is a difference between beating a candidate and sidelining a movement…I believe that fear may be sufficient to beat Trump, but only joy can push MAGA back to the periphery of American life.” I hope he […]

How do you run against joy?

John Fea   |  August 25, 2024

Ever since Kamala Harris introduced Tim Walz as her running mate, the Democratic candidates have been talking about running a campaign full of joy. Here is Three Dog Night: OK–sorry for the digression. During the convention, Bill Clinton said Harris […]

A tale of two conventions

John Fea   |  August 23, 2024

Whatever you think about Donald Trump or Kamala Harris, this Morning Joe video is revealing:

Evangelicals respond to the Democratic National Convention (so far)

John Fea   |  August 22, 2024

Night four of the Democratic National Convention is here. It’s Kamala Harris’s night. Here is what some American evangelicals have been saying this week as the Dems gather in Chicago: The former president of the Southern Baptist Convention believes that […]

Raphael Warnock’s “American covenant” and where his vision for a Micah 6:8 nation goes off the rails

John Fea   |  August 20, 2024

Raphael Warnock delivered a real stemwinder last night at the Democratic National Convention. Speeches like this remind me of why I felt compelled to argue in 2018 that the early civil rights movement provides the best historical model for evangelicals, […]

Harris-Nixon 2024?

John H. Haas   |  August 20, 2024

What has Kamala Harris to do with Richard Nixon? Hint: it has to do with grocery prices.

Former federal justice J. Michael Luttig endorses Kamala Harris

John Fea   |  August 19, 2024

I remember when conservative legal scholar J. Michael Luttig was on the short list of judges considered for a Supreme Court nomination. Then Donald Trump came along and started playing fast and loose with American institutions and the United States […]

“Evangelicals for Harris” releases an ad. Is this a pro-Harris or anti-Trump movement?

John Fea   |  August 15, 2024

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 […]

Franklin & Marshall Poll: Harris leads Trump; Casey leads McCormick

John Fea   |  August 15, 2024

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

John Fea   |  August 15, 2024

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 […]

David French is voting for Harris-Walz. What are his fellow evangelicals saying about the decision?

John Fea   |  August 12, 2024

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 […]

“Evangelicals for Harris” speakers named on the day after we learn more about Tim Walz’s extreme views on abortion

John Fea   |  August 10, 2024

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 […]

Steve Martin will NOT play Tim Walz on Saturday Night Live

John Fea   |  August 8, 2024

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

John Fea   |  August 7, 2024

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

John Fea   |  August 7, 2024

Donald Trump last night on Truth Social. He appears to be losing it:

Who are the “elites” in this election?

John Fea   |  August 7, 2024

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.

What are evangelicals saying about the Harris-Walz ticket?

John Fea   |  August 6, 2024

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 […]

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