Following this, people affiliated with the movement started fasting, praying, and marching daily around their state capitols, and sought divine intervention to overturn the election results.
Weaver, an evangelical Oklahoma insurance salesman, was nominated by Trump to lead the Indian Health Service but withdrew after The Wall Street Journal reported that he misrepresented his qualifications.
[5] Sociologist Brad Christerson and religion scholar Matthew D. Taylor argue that prophets such as Cindy Jacobs and Lance Wallnau in the New Apostolic Reformation (and broader Independent Network Charismatic Christianity) movement were important figures in the Jericho Marches.
They claim additionally that the particular theological beliefs of this form of neo-Charismatic Christianity such as spiritual warfare shaped the events and "[provided] the religious motivation for the fight to overturn the election".
[10] In National Review, Cameron Hilditch described the movement as such:A toxic ideological cocktail of grievance, paranoia, and self-exculpatory rage was on display at the "Jericho March," ... Their aim was to "stop the steal" of the presidential election, to prepare patriots for battle against a "One-World Government," and to sell pillows at a 25 percent discount.
When Eric Metaxas, the partisan radio host and emcee for the event, first stepped on stage, he wasn't greeted with psalm-singing or with hymns of praise to the Holy Redeemer, but with chants of "USA!
[14] The Jericho March in South Dakota "has met at the state Capitol every Sunday since the start of December, according to Bureau of Administration spokesperson Leah Svendsen.