Endorse This: Samantha Bee Rips Evangelical Racism

Endorse This: Samantha Bee Rips Evangelical Racism

This Republican primary season doesn’t make sense for many reasons, but top amongst them is the overwhelming evangelical Christian support for Donald Trump — the playboy misogynist and racist whose show embrace of Christianity is almost too embarrassing to stomach — over Ted Cruz, whose father is a preacher and who has made evangelical politics the central cause of his career.

But a look at the political history of American evangelism tells a different story. And in a brilliant segment on her show Full Frontal, Samantha Bee shows that evangelical support for Trump only makes sense.

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North Carolina GOP's Extremist Nominees Excite Democratic Strategists

Michele Morrow

In 2020, Joe Biden narrowly missed capturing North Carolina’s 16 electoral votes, losing the state by a slim 1.4-percentage-point margin. But that was nearly four years ago. Before the Dobbs decision. Before Donald Trump’s 91 felony indictments. And before last week, when the state’s GOP voters nominated a guy who favorably quotes Hitler, has compared LGBTQ+ people to insects and larvae, and thinks a six-week abortion ban isn’t quite extreme enough for governor. Tar Heel State Republicans also nominated another extremist, Michele Morrow, for superintendent of the state’s schools.

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