The (un)Christian president
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English - October 29, 2020 02:00 - 34 minutes - 78.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsNews Arts british politics investigations journalism news Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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From the first moment of his presidency, Donald Trump has courted - and largely won - the votes of white, Evangelical Christians. For a famously profane and worldly president it's a striking achievement and, in recent months, Trump seems to have doubled-down on the Christian vote with talk of 'miracles' while people around him have described the Democrats as 'atheists'. Has a President with a genius for spotting groups with a grievance and for exploiting division identified a new fault-line in American politics? And how big a difference could it make in next week's election?
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