Texas pastor's pitch for Crockett's seat: numbers favor him

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe Texas pastor eyeing Jasmine Crockett's House seat has a pitch built on arithmetic. The Guardian profiles Reverend Doctor Frederick Douglass Haynes the Third.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorBald, bearded, dressed in black. He took the stage when people were eyeing the exit, and he held the room.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorHis line: when you look at the numbers, we win. He's arguing for a faith-based politics that counters Trump-allied white evangelicals.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorWhich numbers?

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe Guardian doesn't spell out the math in what we have. So it's his claim, and we'll leave it as his.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorA man promises a win by arithmetic. I've sat through that sermon. The collection plate always comes up short.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorOr he's right, and a church does what a campaign office can't. Fill a room after the speeches ran long.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorSpeeches running long. The real threat to democracy.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorHank told something funny.

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    Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorOnce a year. Mark the calendar.