2020 Democratic presidential candidates are making faith more central to their campaigns than in past years
DES MOINES, Iowa — One of the biggest applause lines of Pete Buttigieg’s latest trip to Iowa came when he said: “Faith isn’t the property of one political party.”
By signing up you agree to receive email newsletters or alerts from POLITICO. You can unsubscribe at any time. “For the last several cycles, people tried to act like, as a candidate, to talk about faith is to make you less progressive,” Sharpton said. “In the late '70s and '80s, we let the right wing hijack the Bible and the flag, and Democratic candidates, to reclaim that, [are saying] that we have progressive ideas and we also have a firm belief in faith.”
Gillibrand charted the “misuse by the Republican right of faith-driven people to mislead them on what their faith calls for” to before Trump, she said in an interview with POLITICO before a Sunday church service in Iowa. “I think there’s a reclamation to say, well, if you really are driven by the Gospel, you should feed the poor, you should help the weak, you should help the vulnerable.”
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