Biden eyes inroads with evangelical voters
Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden is seeking to make inroads with evangelical voters, a demographic that overwhelmingly sided with President Trump during the 2016 election. Team Biden doesn’t think it can win over all evangelicals or even a majority, but it does think it can slice off some of them from Trump’s coalition by emphasizing the former vice president’s personal faith and values.
At the Democratic National Convention, Biden’s campaign will hold an interfaith service on Aug. 16, and a Believers for Biden watch party ahead of the candidate’s acceptance speech is set for Aug. 20, according to a Biden adviser. The Democratic National Committee will also host two interfaith council meetings during the week.
The campaign’s Believers for Biden program also plans to host listening sessions with faith leaders, form advisory groups with people from different traditions, and hold town halls and policy roundtables to gain support from faith-based voters.
Josh Dickson, the Biden campaign’s national faith engagement director, said the campaign’s strategy revolves around listening to voters first and then making the case that Biden’s agenda is “much more aligned with their common good values than what we’re seeing from the current administration.”
Evangelical leaders and worshippers who initially might have had reservations about Trump have rallied around him throughout his presidency, praising him as God’s chosen leader to fulfill the conservative and religious mission.
Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/511809-biden-looks-to-make-inroads-with-evangelical-voters
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