The Evangelical Fight to Win Back California

The New York Times’ Elizabeth Dias reports on Franklin Graham’s efforts to mobilize evangelical voters in California. Graham, the son of the late Billy Graham, undertook a 10-city bus tour of the state, and he gave nearly $750,000 for each rally. Dias writes, “That mission, Mr. Graham says, is about faith and Jesus, but the parallel political message is resounding: Support candidates who will advance the socially conservative causes dear to many evangelicals – especially opposition to abortion and same-sex marriage – and get to the polls and vote for them.”

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