{"id":65133,"date":"2018-10-31T14:49:22","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T13:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/10\/31\/midterms-live-early-voting-swells-in-several-key-states-latest-updates\/"},"modified":"2018-10-31T14:49:22","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T13:49:22","slug":"midterms-live-early-voting-swells-in-several-key-states-latest-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=65133","title":{"rendered":"Midterms live: early voting swells in several key states \u2013\u00a0latest updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eleven states have recorded more early votes than they did in all of 2014, with reports of high turnout in Florida, Texas and beyondSign up to the Guardian Us morning briefing 1.46pm GMT The Guardian\u2019s Bryan Mealer reports on the Vote Common Good tour, which features a band of \u201cJesus freaks\u201d upending the usual evangelical script and campaigning for progressive candidates: At each stop, local congressional candidates \u2013 mainly Democrats \u2013 are invited to give a short stump speech. In San Antonio, it\u2019s rumored Beto O\u2019Rourke will appear.The tour, funded by nearly $1m in private donations, started in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, on 2 October, and will conclude in Los Angeles just before the midterm elections. After the 2016 election, he and other clergy were shocked by the overwhelming support Trump received from white evangelicals \u2013 over 80%, according to polls \u2013 and felt they couldn\u2019t sit idle. \u201cWe felt we had to do something, but what?\u201d he says.Pagitt, who identifies as evangelical and is well-known in progressive Christian circles, started making phone calls and soon hatched a plan: a proper barnstorming that would sweep the country like the old-time tent revivals. \u201cWhat we\u2019re doing is inviting people into the good news by literally showing up, meeting them in their own place, and making it personal. That is truly the heart of the Christian story.\u201d Related: &#8216;I\u2019m not anti-Trump, I\u2019m just pro-Jesus&#8217;: the evangelicals stumping for the Democrats 1.42pm GMT Oprah is headed to Georgia to stump for Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams.She\u2019ll join Abrams, who if elected would be the first black female governor anywhere in the country, on the trail on Thursday, Buzzfeed reported. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2018\/oct\/31\/us-politics-live-midterms-latest-donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\">Midterms live: early voting swells in several key states \u2013\u00a0latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eleven states have recorded more early votes than they did in all of 2014, with reports of high turnout in Florida, Texas and beyondSign up to the Guardian Us morning briefing 1.46pm GMT The Guardian\u2019s Bryan Mealer reports on the Vote Common Good tour, which features a band of \u201cJesus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}