The Evangelical Vote

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Society & Culture, History, Documentary

4.7 • 15K Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2020

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

With the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the president is hoping to fill the seat with a more ideologically conservative justice. And evangelical Christians, who've become a powerful conservative voting bloc, have been waiting for this moment. But how and when did this religious group become so intertwined with today's political issues, especially abortion? In this episode, what it means to be an evangelical today and how that has changed over time.

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0:00.0	Donald Trump won white evangelicals by a record 81%
0:05.0	81% of the evangelicals make a huge sloth of the Republican Party
0:09.0	and Donald Trump can credit his victory as president of the United States
0:13.0	and part by their overwhelming turnout.
0:15.0	Well, I've dealt great with evangelicals, including here
0:18.0	where we won our primary big.
0:20.0	But the evangelicals...
0:21.0	There can be this assumption that evangelicals are kind of like
0:25.0	cicadas that go into dormancy in between Iowa caucuses
0:29.0	and the entire identity is built around.
0:33.0	The issue of Thanksgiving's Day of Life.
0:35.0	What political movement they're involved in and who they're supporting.
0:38.0	A top-there agenda, composition of the Supreme Court and abortion.
0:42.0	When that's just really not...
0:43.0	Well, we're swayed and overturned.
0:45.0	What evangelical Christianity is about.
0:51.0	You're listening to Thru Line from NPR.
0:54.0	Where we go back in time.
0:56.0	To understand the present.
1:00.0	Hey, I'm Rand Abdel Fattah.
1:02.0	I'm Ramteen Adab-Louis.
1:03.0	And on this episode, the evangelical vote.
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