The granddaughter of the late evangelist Billy Graham has announced she is backing Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential race against Donald Trump.
Jerushah Duford, whose mother Virginia Graham Tchividjian is Graham’s oldest daughter, announced her support for the Democrat in a video call to an “Evangelicals for Harris” group on Wednesday.
In her announcement, Duford suggested that Christians who continue to support Trump are putting people off from following the teachings of Jesus.
“I was thinking this morning that if you told me 10 years ago that I would be taking an active role in politics, I’d have laughed. But then I had to stop and realize this is so much more than politics,” Duford said in her recorded video.
“In 2016, when a man bragged about assaulting women, various leaders of my faith then propped up this man as a poster boy for godly manhood and leadership,” she added.
“This broke my heart as I have watched — quite frankly, for the last eight years — people who were curious about Jesus and his teachings [have] done a 180 and walked in the other direction from my faith.”
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