Evangelicals for Harris to Trump's threatening religious mouthpiece: Bring it! [View all]
Source: NJ.com
Published: Oct. 08, 2024, 2:09 p.m.
The Evangelicals for Harris organization is not backing down despite legal threats from a conservative ally of former President Trump. The group said Tuesday on social media platform X that lawyers for Rev. Franklin Graham, a longtime supporter of Trump, sent cease-and-desist letters to Evangelicals for Harris over its ads supporting Vice President Harris. About 8 in 10 white evangelical voters voted for Trump in 2020, according to AP VoteCast.
“In response to our first ads, Franklin Graham went on a conservative media tour calling us names and telling Christian audiences to ignore the Scripture and Donald Trump’s own words in our ads. When that failed and tens of millions of Christian voters not only listened to but shared our ads, Franklin Graham turned to a page in the Trump playbook and is trying to silence us with threats of a long and costly court process,” the group wrote in a statement.
“Franklin is scared of our ads because we do not tell people what to do or think. We merely hold Trump’s own words up to the light of Scripture, the necessity of repentance, and Biblical warnings against leaders exactly like Trump,” the statement continued. Graham spoke during a Georgia campaign event with Trump last month, shortly after Hurricane Helene ripped through his home state of North Carolina as well as Florida, Georgia and Tennessee.
Some of the ads by Evangelicals for Harris feature sermons from Graham’s father, Billy Graham. Graham has accused the group of “trying to mislead” people by featuring his father in their ads. The Evangelicals for Harris group gave no indication that they would halt their ads despite Graham’s legal threats.
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