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Religion plays a relatively minor role in this year’s US election campaign. Nevertheless, Harris and Trump are now fighting for Christian voters.
Washington, DC – Two weeks before the US election, Democratic candidate Kamala Harris and Republican Donald Trump are campaigning for the votes of eligible voters. The candidates repeatedly try to get individual groups of voters on their side. Most recently, Trump and Harris appear to be trying to win over religious constituencies.
Religion in the US election campaign: Trump styles himself as the chosen one – Harris “prays every day”
While Trump once again declared to a group of Christian voters that he had been chosen by a “supernatural hand,” Harris laid it on a little less heavily. In one CNN-Civil Hour on Wednesday evening (October 23), the Vice President said: “I pray every day, sometimes twice a day.” She was raised to believe in a loving God and lives her faith by thinking about how she can help others. This principle also guides their work.
Two weeks before the US election: Harris and Trump are fighting for Christian voters
Moderator Anderson Cooper asked the Democratic candidate about a report that she first called a pastor after Joe Biden withdrew from the presidential race. “I needed that spiritual kind of connection. I needed this advice. “I needed a prayer,” Harris said of her conversation with Pastor Amos Brown of her San Francisco Baptist church.
Trump recently criticized Harris for skipping the Al Smith Dinner in New York City, a high-profile fundraiser for Catholic Charities. The former president called Harris’ absence “very disrespectful to our great Catholic community.” In this year’s US election campaign, Harris and Trump – unlike candidates before previous presidential elections – did not make their faith the focus of the election campaign, it says NBC-Message.
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