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Franklin Graham Addresses Father’s Clip Used in ‘Evangelicals For Harris’ Campaign

As Kamala Harris runs for the Democratic presidential nomination, self-described Christian groups are rallying behind her this election season. Evangelicals Support Harris, They released their first media spots on Wednesday in an effort to garner support from “undecided” conservative evangelicals in battleground states.

According to CBN NewsThe video will be first released through social media and then broadcast on television in several battleground states. The organization is targeting conservative Christian media websites. Additionally, more than 200,000 evangelical Christians have signed the pledge. Our Evangelicals Volunteer to vote for Harris/Waltz.

Donald Trump has won a majority of the evangelical vote so far. Evangelicals Support Harris They are targeting battleground states because elections are usually decided by narrow margins in seven battleground states.

On Wednesday, evangelist Franklin Graham Our Evangelicals for including images and soundbites of his late father, evangelical leader Billy Graham, in the company’s ads.

“Liberals are pulling out all the stops to promote Harris, even going so far as to create political ads using the image of my father, Billy Graham, to try to promote Harris and, in fact, to make Donald J. Trump look bad. They are trying to mislead the public,” Graham wrote in both papers. Facebook And X.

“They may not know that my father was a strong supporter of President Trump in 2016,” he noted. “He appreciated President Trump’s conservative values ​​and policies. If he were alive today, his thinking and opinions would not have changed. President Trump is not perfect. None of us are perfect. But I believe he has changed over the years. The recent assassination attempt had a big impact on him. I thank God that his life was spared.”

Meanwhile, Billy Graham’s granddaughter, Jerusha Duford, said:Evangelicals support Harris“On a Zoom call on Wednesday, he claimed that Christians who support Trump are driving people away from Christianity. Christian Post.

“To me, voting for Kamala is much more than policies. It’s a vote against another four years of religious leaders who will justify the actions of a man who will destroy the message that Jesus came to spread, and that’s why I’m in politics,” Dufort, whose mother, Virginia “Gigi” Graham Tchividjian, is Graham’s eldest daughter, said in a recorded video because she was unable to attend the event.

She previously USA Today In 2020, she urged Christian women to reject Trump, claimed the church would “honor Trump before God,” and alleged that Trump had tear-gassed protesters in Lafayette Park and encouraged them to pose for photos holding up a Bible in front of St. John’s Church — claims that were later debunked in a federal investigation. Exposed In 2021.

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Milton Quintanilla A freelance writer and content creator, he is a contributing writer for CrosswalkHeadlines and the host of the For Your Soul Podcast, a podcast focused on sound doctrine and biblical truth. He holds a Master of Divinity from Alliance Theological Seminary.

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