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Artfully Dodging a Presidential Endorsement: How Joel Osteen Uses Rhetoric to Build an Audience for Political Gain

Although he ultimately disputed the scope and semantics of it, televangelist Joel Osteen's "endorsement" of presidential candidate Donald Trump in a Fox News interview trended on social media for a few days in March 2016. The support sparked intense debate and prompted Osteen's H...