The Faith & Freedom Coalition has announced that they would be spending around $40 million to encourage Christians to vote in the next midterm elections.
In order to get Christians to the polls in the next midterm elections in 2022, the major evangelical lobbying charity Faith & Freedom Coalition plans to spend almost $40 million.
FFC executive director Timothy Head said that the group, led by Christian activist Ralph Reed, would spend between $36 million and $42 million on a countrywide drive to contact Christian voters, as reported in a recent interview with The Christian Post. The FFC will use a precleared voter list to send out mailers, make phone calls, and even pay voters a personal visit at their homes.
Grassroots work is something we’re doing in 24 states, Head told The Christian Post. We’ll knock on 8.2 million doors across those 24 states for this election season.
The states of Georgia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Wisconsin, Iowa, Texas, Colorado, Arizona, Nevada, California, and Colorado will be the primary targets for the Christian group’s efforts.
This includes all 435 seats in the House of Representatives, 35 Senate seats, 36 governorships, and over 80% of state legislative seats. However, there will be no governor election in North Carolina and no U.S. Senate campaign in Texas this year.
Our primary concentration is on those U.S. Senate elections, as well as some of the corresponding governorships,” Head said.
The FiveThirtyEight Deluxe Model, which predicts election outcomes “based on polls, fundraising, past voting patterns,” and the opinions of political experts, shows that Republicans have a 72% chance of taking control of the House of Representatives as of Sunday night, while Democrats have a 71% chance of keeping their grip on the U.S. Senate.
The Biden administration would be unable to pass legislation for the next two years if the Republicans won control of the House of Representatives or the Senate.
According to Head, “Republicans in the U.S. House are probably looking at… between a 30 and 40 seat gain…”
He predicted that at the conclusion of the cycle, Republicans will control between 28 and 30 governorships.
The battle for control of the Senate is “a jump ball at this point,” according to the FFC’s executive director, who predicts that the outcome will depend on votes cast in Nevada, Arizona, Georgia, and Pennsylvania.
As the November election nears, FFC isn’t the only group trying to reach out to Christian voters. With a mission to “motivate, empower, and mobilize Christians in America to vote in every election,” My Faith Votes has allocated more than $3.5 million for the 2018 midterms.
According to CEO Jason Yates’s interview with The Christian Post, My Faith Votes will be concentrating its efforts on the states of Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.
National Voter Registration Day is October 16, and this past Sunday was the group’s fourth annual National Voter Registration Sunday. This gathering is a call to churches around the country to mobilize “their congregations, their bodies of believers, to be active and to be voting.”
Churches that are interested in holding voter registration campaigns might use the resources provided by My Faith Votes. They also started a campaign called “Write Now” to get Christians in swing states to vote by writing “letters to other Christians urging them to vote.”
About 15 million Christians in the US are not registered to vote, Yates said.
A “federal debt exceeding $30 trillion,” he said, as well as higher abortion and divorce rates, result from Christians not casting ballots.
“Those are signs of a government that isn’t valuing biblical principles, and I believe there’s an enormous lot of potential,” Yates added.
“When we evacuate the public square, when we abandon that, what we are doing is we are abdicating it to those who do not share our beliefs,” he continued. So it may be said that the rules, policies, and laws that are put into place don’t reflect biblical ideals. We have no interest in turning the United States into a theocracy, but we are confident in the superiority of our morals.
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