“Victor Marx, a nonprofit ministry leader and the Republican Party’s gubernatorial nominee in Colorado, claimed to have encountered Satan personally during an episode of ‘spiritual warfare,’ according to resurfaced audio.” - CPost
Supreme Court Job Approval Slumps to Record Low
“Americans’ approval of the job the U.S. Supreme Court is doing has fallen to a record low of 33%, driven by a steep drop in Republicans’ backing of the court since last year. The prior low approval rating was 39% measured a year ago.” - Gallup
Conservatives Must Know What to Conserve
“For many of these voters, being on the political right is not about being conservative, at least not socially conservative. The result is significant lack of clarity on the political right about what social conservatives hope to conserve.” - Breakpoint
Pew: Relatively few Americans say people have negative views of masculine men.
“25% say people in the United States have mostly negative views of men who are ‘manly or masculine’ … . But among Republican men, 45% do think people have negative views of masculine men” - Pew
Is There a Post-Religious Right on the Horizon?
“Is there a rising number of non-religious Republicans that are going to take the party in a less socially conservative direction? Let’s see what the data has to say about that.” - Ryan Burge
At RNC, an uneven, awkward embrace of religious pluralism
“As a Republican official led a Sikh prayer, images of Christian crosses flashed behind her.” - RNS
The Virtues Pro-Lifers Now Need to Remember: Forbearance and Patience
“However pro-life activists want to spin things, the Republican Party’s amendment of the platform represents a deliberate marginalization of the pro-life movement.” - The Dispatch
How pro-Life activists should react to the Republican Party platform change
“Many who are rightly disappointed in this shift have suggested that perhaps it was futile for Christians to get involved in politics at all…. this kind of detachment ignores the good that can be done and that has been done for the cause of life.” - Baptist Press
Platform Integrity Project seeks to preserve a pro-life stand in the GOP
“the initiative encourages the public to encourage and pray for Republican National Committee delegates to preserve the ‘strong pro-life, pro-family and pro-freedom’ elements of the Republican Platform as they meet to draft a new platform in Milwaukee from July 8-9.” - CPost
Shifting Partisan Coalitions in a Politically Divided Nation: Party identification among registered voters, 1994-2023
“More than six-in-ten White voters who do not have a four-year degree (63%) associate with the Republican Party, which is up substantially over the past 15 years. White college graduates are closely divided; this was not the case in the 1990s and early 2000s, when they mostly aligned with the GOP.” - Pew