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Philly's 'pastor of the hood' Carl Day weighs in on the 2024 election

Carl Day joined NPR to weigh in on the Biden campaign in 2020. We caught up with him to hear what he's thinking heading into 2024.
Carl Day is a pastor at Culture Changing Christians in Philadelphia's Kensington neighborhood.

Philadelphia pastor Carl Day says he'll vote to reelect President Joe Biden in 2024 if it means keeping former President Donald Trump out of office. But he says Biden isn't the candidate he'd design from scratch.

Who is he? Carl Day is a pastor and community organizer in Philadelphia's Kensington neighborhood, a center of the city's opioid epidemic and an area plagued by gun violence.

  • Day, known as the "Pastor of the

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