Kristin Kobes Du Mez: Inside the Evangelical MAGA vote

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🗓️ 8 February 2024

⏱️ 21 minutes

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It's harder than ever to define what it means to be evangelical in America. But one constant? The Trump support. "The MAGA base is very real inside these evangelical spaces and it's not accurate to try to separate them," says scholar Kristin Kobes Du Mez, who herself has an Evangelical background. She tells Niala why white Evangelical power is stronger than ever for Republicans in 2024. Plus: Axios' Sophia Cai on what she's seen covering the Evangelical vote on the campaign trail, and why it matters that more pastors are spreading their word on social media. Guests: Kristin Kobes Du Mez, professor of history and gender studies at Calvin and the author of the book "Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation." Credits: 1 big thing is produced by Niala Boodhoo, Alexandra Botti, and Jay Cowit. Music is composed by Alex Sugiura. You can reach us at [email protected]. You can send questions, comments and story ideas as a text or voice memo to Niala at 202-918-4893. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's harder than ever to define what it means to be evangelical in America.
0:05.4	But one thing remains pretty constant.
0:08.4	The Trump support, the MAGA base, is very real inside these evangelical spaces and it's not accurate to try to separate
0:16.3	them.
0:18.3	Why one historian who grew up in the church says that vote is still key for Republicans.
0:25.0	I'm Nila Boodoo from Axios.
0:27.0	This is one big thing. Super Tuesday is less than a month away and the Iowa caucuses are already a few weeks
0:38.2	behind us. In Iowa about half of caucus goers were evangelical Christians.
0:43.5	Why that matters?
0:44.6	That sets the tone for the rest of the primary.
0:46.5	Axos National Political reporter Sophia Kai
0:50.9	is covering the 2024 election and was on the ground in Iowa.
0:54.3	That's also why Trump had evangelical pastures and specifically Pentecostal
0:59.6	charismatic pastures on the trail for him.
1:03.6	One of them I met Jill Tenney, who's a 27-year-old pastor.
1:08.6	He told me you cannot be a Christian
1:11.2	and vote for a Democrat.
1:12.3	The reason being many of the Democratic
1:16.4	policies are antithetical to the policies of Jesus Christ which are hammered out in the Gospels and his teaching.
1:25.5	I called Reverend Tenney in Iowa. Our nation is on the brink of calamitous ruin. With Biden in office for another four more years we will
1:37.4	absolutely lose our country and to a great degree we've already lost our country and that is the grievance that many
1:47.9	Christians are vocalizing here.
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