Michael Wear is a recent arrival on the political commentator circuit, but has fast become a fixture. He directed faith outreach for Obama’s 2012 election campaign and was one of the youngest White House staffers in modern American history, his account of which is described in illuminating detail in his book Reclaiming Hope.
His analysis of the 2016 election is incisive and emphatic: Hillary Clinton was the most religiously literate Democrat candidate in recent history, he told us, but she made no credible attempt at faith outreach. Her advisers told her she could win the country without the white evangelical vote, and they were wrong.
Is it more true that Hillary lost the election than that Trump won it? Listen to our cutting room floor interview for Michael’s fascinating analysis of the biggest blind spot of the 2016 US election.
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