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The media's defense of Biden's comment has boiled down to: "There's an apostrophe! Can't you hear the apostrophe?" This falls into the same vein as Clinton's defense of his own words: "it depends on the meaning of the word 'is'." Any politician that has to defend themselves by resorting to grammatical rules over punctuation or pronouns or helping verbs has already lost the battle.

I like your subdivision of evangelical voters. Although I'm only nominally evangelical, I fall into camp #2.5. I was a #4.9 in 2016, moved up to 3.5 by 2020, but Trump's response in Butler, PA pushed me into the 2's. Still don't like him. Still wouldn't trust him in a room with my teen daughter. (Mike Pence I would; Vance as well; not Trump) But I'm electing a political leader not a moral exemplar or a priest, and sometimes countries need leaders who aren't choir boys.

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Does my analysis of the importance of the "his rally" statement make sense to you?

The apostrophe issue is a hot mess. The issue is whether anyone thinks Biden WAS NOT talking about Trump, and Trump supporters, in reality.

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Yes. There's no question what the pronoun "his" refers to.

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In an interview on Fox, Trump confirmed that relatively few evangelicals vote. It seems like the Dems would love them for their apparent apathy. I hope they (evangelicals) won't sit this one out though.

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In the past, the evangelical turnout in the GENERAL election wasn't all that important (other than LATINO evangelicals in 2016 in Florida, who put Trump in the White House). But the 2020 loss in Georgia changed everything. Now, Ga., NC and Virginia could TURN on white evangelical turnout. Stay tuned. Did you listen to the podcast?

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