Posted on 10/08/2020 5:49:53 PM PDT by marshmallow
(CN) — In an effort to pull Christian voters away from President Trump, Joe Biden launched a new ad campaign Thursday tailored around the former vice president’s Catholic faith and values.
“In a stark contrast to Donald Trump, who tear gassed protesters to pose for a photo op with a Bible in front of a church, the ads depict how Biden’s faith is deeply connected to his life story and commitment to public service and illustrates why Biden is the clear moral choice in this election,” the Biden team said of the rollout, making reference to the president’s controversial June appearance at St. John’s Church near the White House.
The ads draw a contrast between Trump and the Democratic presidential nominee by emphasizing that the “common good values of the Biden-Harris agenda” deeply align with “the values of people of faith,” Biden’s campaign added.
While the ads take aim at religious voters, Nancy Ammerman, professor emerita of sociology of religion at Boston University, said Thursday that to get these voters, it’s rarely a matter of lining up religious beliefs and political views.
“Rather, people tend to see clues that make them think a person is like them or not,” Ammerman said in an email. “Religious identity is sometimes one of those clues.”
Biden seems to be doing better with religious voters than 2016 Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. A poll published last month by Vote Common Good, a nonprofit attempting to persuade evangelicals not to vote for Trump, found that Biden is doing well with Christian voters in swing states like Florida, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
“The 2020 election is currently on track to produce an 11% swing towards Biden compared with 2016 among evangelicals and Catholics, averaging across both Christian denominations and all 5 swing states.......
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Vote for Joe, or he’ll shove his rosary beads down your throat!
Catholics are against killing babies and against making other people pay for it.
The values of the people of faith do not include abortion.
Nor socialism/marxism.
biden traded a basic moral tenet of Catholicism for votes. not the mark of a strong leader
Democrats have a problem with the Handmaiden accusation, though, considering that Barrette’s husband is the one who works from home. It just doesn’t fit.
PUKE.
What a joke.
“Catholics are against killing babies and against making other people pay for it.”
Please do not make such a blanket statement. The vast majority of Catholics vote for Baby Killer Dems and have been doing so for DECADES.
With a heretic Marxist in the Vatican, Joe Biden gets a free pass from the corrupt Catholic hierarchy.
Biden has as much faith as the Pope...
Biden stating he is Catholic is just like Adolph Hitler stating he was Catholic since he was baptized and confirmed in the Catholic Faith as a child.
No authentic, Jesus loving Christian is going to vote for Joe, Period.
Is his wife’s first husband in the ad?
Trump is much more of a catholic than that fraud.
Biden is as Catholic as the Pope...
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