Prior to the 2020 presidential election, PRRI data showed that more than eight in ten Americans (86%) were somewhat or very worried that there would be widespread violent protests in cities across the country following the election. In the immediate aftermath of the in-person vote, while ballots are still being counted in several states, that has yet to occur. Kristen Clarke, president and executive director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law told reporters this week that there had not been many incidents. “Fortunately this hasn’t been a systematic or widespread issue,” she said. “We certainly were prepared for this being a bigger problem than it proved to be today.”

In a new piece for America Magazine, J.D. Long-García examines what pundits and analysts mean when they refer to a “Latino vote.” Long-García reminds readers that Latin Americans have a wide range of political beliefs and do not vote in lockstep with one another. According to Long-García some of the Latin American voters he spoke with said they supported President Donald Trump due to his stance on abortion rights. “A 2019 study by the Public Religion Research Institute found Latinos were the only major race or ethnicity where a near-majority of respondents (and a majority of those with a religious affiliation) believed abortion should be illegal in all or most cases,” he writes.

On Thursday November 5, join PRRI CEO and founder Robert P. Jones for a panel discussion sponsored by Fordham University. Jones will discuss the aftermath of the election and what it says about white Christian populism with Eddie S. Glaude Jr., chair of the Department of African American Studies at Princeton University and president of the American Academy of Religion, and Kristina Stoeckl, a professor of sociology at the University of Innsbruck. You can read more about white Christianity in Jones’ latest book, “White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity.”