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🗓️ 31 August 2024
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0:00.0 | Welcome back to our special two-hour edition of Alex Wagner tonight. I'm Katie |
0:07.9 | Fang in for Alex. The 2000 presidential election was one of the closest |
0:12.4 | presidential races we've ever experienced in this country. |
0:15.8 | Although George W Bush won the election by just five electoral votes, it was Al Gore who won the popular vote that year. But when you start to slice and dice |
0:26.0 | the electorate into different voting groups, that race starts to look way less tight. Check this out. In 2000, George W Bush dramatically outperformed his opponent |
0:37.2 | among white evangelical voters, winning 68% among that group. In 2004, he increased that support by 10 points. Evangelical support |
0:48.5 | for the Republican presidential candidate remained relatively steady for the next two elections. |
0:54.3 | And then look what happened in 2016. |
0:57.1 | Donald Trump won the support of 81% of white evangelical voters. |
1:03.8 | The Donald Trump's ability to supercharge the evangelical vote has largely been attributed |
1:09.4 | as the reason he was able to win the presidency the first time he ran. |
1:14.0 | Without a strong evangelical turnout, it becomes much more difficult for Donald Trump |
1:18.8 | to chart a repeat path to the presidency, which is why headlines like these today are a five alarm fire for the |
1:26.8 | Trump campaign. |
1:28.0 | Quote, why evangelicals are upset at recent Trump and Vance statements on abortion. |
1:35.0 | The last 24 hours have laid bare the challenges of running the first Republican campaign for president in 50 years. |
1:42.0 | And in America where abortion is not a guaranteed constitutional |
1:46.2 | right. |
1:47.2 | In addition to voting for president this November, Florida will also vote on whether abortion |
1:52.1 | access should be protected in their state up to 24 weeks of pregnancy. |
1:57.0 | Right now abortion is illegal after just six weeks, which is before most women even suspect that they could be pregnant. |
2:05.6 | Last night, Donald Trump, who himself is a Florida voter, told NBC News that he believes |
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