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- Televangelist and spiritual advisor Paula White led a passionate prayer Wednesday in an attempt to secure President Trump’s re-election.
- During a live-broadcast prayer, White spoke in tongues and claimed that “demonic confederations” were “trying to steal the election from Trump.”
- The televangelist’s pleas come as Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden advances in the race for the White House.
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President Trump’s spiritual adviser Paula White led a passionate prayer event Wednesday in an attempt to secure his reelection victory.
During a prayer broadcast live from his YouTube channel, White criticized the “demonic confederations that are trying to steal the election from Trump.”
“I hear victory, victory, victory, victory, victory, victory, victory, victory right now in the corners of the sky,” White said in the video as she closed her eyes in prayer and gestured passionately.
At one point, White appears to speak in tongues in a video that has been viewed more than 20 million times, before proclaiming, “Angels are being sent right now. Angels are being sent from Africa right now … They are coming. here. . “
Speaking in tongues is a practice in which people make sounds of a secret language unknown to the speaker. It appears in Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity, as well as other religions.
Check out the moment below:
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The televangelist also took aim at the current election results, saying: “We declare that we overcome every strategy from hell that has aligned itself against this election, that has aligned itself against its will, that has aligned itself against the church.”
White’s pleas come as Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden advances in the race for the White House, and he appears to have secured the critical rust belt states of Wisconsin and Michigan.
However, the states that could put Biden on top and claim his victory – Arizona, Georgia, Nevada and Pennsylvania – were still counting the ballots Thursday.
Speaking to the nation from his home state of Delaware on Saturday, Biden said he is “confident that we will be victorious.”
President Donald Trump hugs Paula White in the Rose Garden of the White House on May 2, 2019 in Washington, DC.
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“People rule,” Biden said. “Power cannot be taken … it flows from the people and it is their will that determines who will be the president of the United States and only their will.”
White is a televangelist who recently led a megachurch in Florida and has a close relationship with the president and his family. She was appointed to the White House Faith and Opportunity Initiative at the Office of Public Liaison, in November 2019.
White, 54, is considered a controversial figure in Christian circles because he preaches the prosperity gospel, which believes that God will reward believers with material riches if they donate generously to ministers.
In a 2017 interview with CNN, he called the criticism against his “utter absurdity.”
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