Vance takes religion strategy after Harris mocked pro-life protesters at rally: ‘Jesus is King’

An attendee at Sen. JD Vance’s Wisconsin rally shouted “Jesus is King!” throughout his speech on Sunday afternoon, with Vance echoing the attendee and repeating the identical phrase – a unique strategy than Vice President Kamala Harris appeared to take final week. 

Vance shared that, whereas he would not discuss his religion typically, he returned to his religion as a younger man and is a religious Christian. He mentioned he was baptized in 2019.

“I say this as a Christian, as an individual who was baptized for the primary time just some years in the past. There’s something actually weird with Kamala Harris’ anti-Christian rhetoric and anti-Christian strategy to public coverage,” Vance defined.

This comes after Vice President Kamala Harris seemingly informed two Christian college students at her Wisconsin rally final week that they had been “on the flawed rally” after they shouted “Jesus is Lord” and “Christ is King.”

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JD Vance spoke at a Wisconsin rally on Sunday about his religion. Kamala Harris beforehand informed some pro-Life protesters they had been “on the flawed rally.” (Fox Information)

As he continued talking about religion and politics, he was interrupted by an attendee who shouted “Jesus is King.” 

“That is proper. Jesus is King,” Vance responds.

Vance then addressed a viral video of Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer carrying a Harris-Walz marketing campaign hat whereas feeding Doritos to a kneeling podcast host in what some critics mentioned made a mockery of a sacred Christian ceremony. 

“I do not assume that we have seen something like this in fashionable American politics,” Vance mentioned. “Gretchen Whitmer does this actually weird factor the place she acts like she’s given any person communion, nevertheless it’s a Dorito. And naturally, Gretchen Whitmer is not like a minister of something aside from, you recognize, a church I do not essentially need to discuss, however take into consideration how sacrilegious that’s and take into consideration how offensive that’s to each individual.”

“Frankly, whether or not you are an individual of Christian religion or not, Donald Trump and I are going to combat to your proper to stay your values, as a result of that is what the First Modification protects. And I feel whether or not you are a Christian, a Catholic or another religion or no religion in any respect, if you see an American chief, if you see a surrogate of Kamala Harris insulting folks of the Christian religion, I feel that we should always say to each single a type of folks, you are fired. We’re not supplying you with any extra energy,” Vance continued.

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Republican vice presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, speaks at a marketing campaign occasion at The Pennsylvanian in Pittsburgh, Pa., Thursday, Oct. 17, 2024.  (AP Picture/Rebecca Droke)

Whitmer has since apologized for the video and emphasised that the video was not meant to mock folks of religion.

Vance continued talking in regards to the help the Trump administration has for spiritual folks, in contrast to the Harris marketing campaign, he mentioned.

“There are loads of Catholics. So I feel rightfully really feel deserted by Joe Biden and Kamala Harris’s management. And so they’re simply in search of any person to guard their rights and make this nation an inexpensive and respectable place to lift a household,” Vance mentioned throughout his rally in Waukesha. 

“And that is all I feel that is true of loads of Catholics. It is true of non-Catholics, too. However we can not have an American authorities that’s persecuting Christians for residing their religion. We must be rewarding folks and inspiring folks to stay their religion.” 

Vance’s feedback come after two pro-life Wisconsin school college students insisted that they had been doing “God’s work” by attending Harris’ rally on their college’s campus and shouting pro-life, Christian messages final week. 

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In video footage of the rally, the scholar’s voices are heard shouting the phrases.

Harris, pausing her speech, turned her consideration to them, and mentioned, “You guys are on the flawed rally.”

She continued as the group roared, “I feel you meant to go to the smaller one down the road” – referring to Trump’s rally.

Luke Polaske, a College of Wisconsin-La Crosse junior, shared a vivid account of the incident from his perspective, stating that he and fellow UW-La Crosse junior Grant Beth had been roughly 20 to 30 yards away from Harris within the small venue. In detailing the encounter, he described his perceived interplay with the vice chairman.

“There’s loads of controversy that claims she wasn’t speaking to us or [that] we left. We did not get kicked out. Nicely, I can converse on Grant and I’s behalf,” Polaske mentioned.

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“On video, Grant’s getting pushed and shoved, and there is about 5 seconds earlier than she tells us to go to a small rally down the road. You’ll be able to see on the video, she waves. She was truly waving to me. I took this cross off my neck that I put on and, as we had been getting requested to go away, I held it up within the air and waved at her and pointed at her, and she or he regarded straight within the eye, form of gave me an evil smirk.”

“I simply need to clear that up and make sure that she 100% was speaking to us.”

Fox Information Digital reached out to Kamala Harris’ marketing campaign for remark and didn’t instantly obtain a response. 

Fox Information Digital’s Taylor Penley contributed to this report.