On Wednesday night, Evangelicals for Harris held a Zoom call that featured prominent evangelical voices pledging their support for Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election.
Evangelicals for Harris describes itself as a group of “faithful, compassionate evangelicals exercising our God-giving citizenship by voting for someone who better reflects Christian values.”
The Zoom call was hosted by Ekemini Uwan, who in 2019 labeled “whiteness” as “wicked.” “We have to understand something,” Uwan said at an evangelical Christian racial reconciliation conference, “whiteness is wicked. It is wicked. It’s rooted in violence. It’s rooted in theft. It’s rooted in plunder. It’s rooted in power. It’s rooted in privilege.”
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During the opening of the call, Uwan said that Harris “is a fellow Christian and was raised in the Black church.” Harris sang in her church’s choir as a child and is a member of the Third Baptist Church of San Francisco, a church pastored by Rev. Amos C. Brown.
The call featured Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) Pastor Dwight McKissic, Billy Graham’s granddaughter Jerushah Duford, former U.S. Congressman Adam Kinzinger, Presbyterian Pastor Lee Scott, Texas State Representative James Talarico, Pastor Matt Tebbe, Christian hip hop artist Derek Minor, Bishop Claude Alexander, Evangelicals for Harris founder and chair Dr. Rev. Jim Ball, author Shane Claiborne, and historian Jemar Tisby.
During the call, which according to MSNBC reached over 40,000 people, Ball said that in 2020, Evangelicals for Biden was the “biggest, independent, evangelical, grassroots campaign ever to support a Democratic presidential candidate.”
“We provided strategic support by flipping Trump voters to Biden voters in Michigan and Georgia,” Ball said. Ball further claimed that the group’s support for Biden provided him with the victories he needed in swing states.
As Ball encouraged evangelicals to vote for Harris, he said, “The most important thing I actually have to say to everyone tonight is we are going to win.”
Ball went on to explain that Evangelicals for Harris plans to target evangelical voters through Google, social media, and email. Ball said that Evangelicals for Biden sent 40 million emails in 2020 to support Biden’s election.
Evangelicals for Harris will also be organizing more Zoom calls and will be running video ads on television and streaming platforms such as Hulu, Apple TV, and YouTube.
