Vice President Kamala Harris is a Baptist who was influenced by religious traditions in her mother's home country of India.Former President Donald Trump grew up
FILE - Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris shake hands before the start of an ABC News presidential debate at the National Constitution Center, Sept. 10, 2024, in Philadelphia.
Despite that, few Americans see the presidential candidates as particularly Christian, according to a new survey conducted Sept. 12-16 by the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs. Only 14% of U.S. adults say the word "Christian" describes Harris or Trump "extremely" or "very" well.Strikingly, that appears to matter little to part of Trump's loyal base: white evangelical Protestants. About 7 in 10 members of this group view him favorably.
Evangelical leaders, she said, are pushing this idea that, "this is God's man, and we can't ask why. We don't have to ask why. It doesn't matter if he's moral, it doesn't matter if he's religious. It doesn't matter if he lies compulsively. It's for the greater good that we get him re-elected." Anthea Butler, professor of religious studies at the University of Pennsylvania, said white evangelicals likely see him as instrumental to their goals, such as his appointment of conservative, anti-abortion justices to the Supreme Court.For the head of the Democratic ticket, a large majority — three-quarters — of Harris' fellow Black Protestants view her favorably and 6 in 10 say she best represents their religious beliefs.
Overall, about half of Americans surveyed said that Christian at least "somewhat" described Harris, while about one-third said so about Trump.
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