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Evangelicals and Election Day 2020: What We Know

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Christianity Today

Religion, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.3622 Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2020

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Transcribed highlights of the show can be found in our episode summaries. This week on Quick to Listen, we wanted to discuss the election with those who have been following this race closely. On this episode, senior news editor Kate Shellnutt, print news editor Daniel Silliman, and researcher Ryan Burge join global media manager Morgan Lee and editorial director Ted Olsen. What is Quick to Listen? Read more Rate Quick to Listen on Apple Podcasts Follow the podcast on Twitter Follow our hosts on Twitter: Morgan Lee and Ted Olsen Follow our guests on Twitter: Kate Shellnutt, Daniel Silliman, and Ryan Burge Music by Sweeps Quick to Listen is produced by Morgan Lee and Matt Linder The transcript is edited by Bunmi Ishola Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

This episode is brought to you in part by The Apologetics Guy Show, the podcast that helps you find clear answers to tough questions about Christianity.

0:11.1

Learn to explain your faith with courage and compassion.

0:14.5

Join Moody Bible Institute professor Dr. Mikhail del Rosario at apologeticsky.com.

0:22.7

Who will be the president of the United States for the next four years?

0:26.1

Right now, we don't know.

0:28.2

Joe Biden currently holds 238 electoral votes to President Trump's 213.

0:33.7

But as of Wednesday morning, ballots are still being counted in Pennsylvania,

0:37.3

Michigan, Wisconsin, and Georgia, and the final decision may take days to decide.

0:43.2

Among white evangelical and born-again Christians, Trump earned 78% of the vote, according to the first 110,000 voters surveyed by the Associated Press for its vote cast pool.

0:53.9

Preliminary estimates from the national election pool put it a little lower at 76%.

0:58.0

We wanted to hear from those who have been following this and other races very closely,

1:02.5

and we'll tell you a little bit more about them in a couple minutes.

1:09.4

You are listening to Quick to Listen, where we go be on hashtags and hot takes to discuss a major cultural event.

1:15.4

I'm Morgan Lee, global media manager at Christianity Today.

1:18.6

And I'm Ted Olson, editorial director at Christianity Today.

1:22.1

Thank you. So, Ted, first, the gut check.

1:34.9

Yeah, gut check.

1:35.7

I mean, like many people, look up this morning and thought, well, we still don't know.

1:39.7

I am a little bit surprised at how many people in my, you know, kind of social media feeds

1:45.0

are surprised or shocked that we don't know or frustrated.

1:49.0

To me, it's like, well, this seems to me to be going more or less along the lines of

1:54.5

what we were promised that we would have some initial results, but that we may not know

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