Rubio’s Awkward Balancing Act Between Evangelicals and Catholics
…n Iowa, where, as Sarah Posner notes here in RD, evangelicals seem divided between the hard-core Christian nationalism of Ted Cruz and Rubio’s kinder, gentler approach that focuses on his “personal relationship with Jesus.” Writing in RNS, Jonathan Merritt says that while the ad is a “mishmash of religious beliefs and Bible verses,” he finds it “surprisingly cogent.” But the ad strikes me as an awkward—if wishful—amalgamation of evangelical, and E…
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