United States: Vice President Kamala Harris’s interactions with hecklers at a rally in La Crosse, Wisconsin, are attracting attention from the Trump camp, including X/Twitter owner Elon Musk, as well as some conservative Christian and Catholic advocates.
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Videos and audio of Harris’ rally in Wisconsin appear to show hecklers yelling “Christ is King” and “Jesus is Lord” while the Democratic candidate touted her support for abortion rights.
Harris responded by saying, “Oh, you guys are at the wrong rally,” which prompted laughter from her supporters, according to the reports.
CatholicVote.org, a conservative group opposing abortion rights, along with conservative activists Charlie Kirk and Candace Owens, have commented on the interaction.
The Harris campaign posted a clip of the US vice president interacting with the hecklers but not with audio of what they said.
Some Harris backers said the vice president might have heard hecklers say, “That’s a lie,” in response to her contentions about Trump and the US Supreme Court.
They argue Trump supporters are misrepresenting the interaction.
Harris strongly supports abortion rights, which will also be on the ballot next month in Montana, Arizona, Florida, and Missouri. She has made this issue a central focus of her 2020 election campaign.
Former President Trump supports allowing individual states to decide on the issue of abortion. His three US Supreme Court appointees contributed to overturning Roe v. Wade.
A September poll from the Pew Research Center indicates that Trump has significant support among various religious groups: he leads Kamala Harris among White Evangelicals (82 percent to 16 percent), White mainline Protestants (58 percent to 41 percent), and White Catholics (61 percent to 38 percent), as per reports.
Harris is preferred over Trump by Black Protestants (86 percent to 11 percent), Hispanic Catholics (65 percent to 34 percent), Jews (65 percent to 34 percent), Atheists (85 percent to 11 percent), Agnostics (78 percent to 20 percent), and individuals without religious affiliation (68 percent to 20 percent).
Reportedly, Harris skipped Friday’s Al Smith Dinner in New York, a major fundraiser for Catholic Charities regularly attended by presidential candidates. Trump participated in the event, while Harris became the first presidential candidate to skip it since Walter Mondale in 1984.
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