Trump boosts a hard-right Christian worldview that paints the election as 'spiritual warfare'

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Trump boosts a hard-right Christian worldview that paints the election as 'spiritual warfare'

Donald Trump’s campaign has nourished a fusion of hard-right politics and theology to energize evangelical Christians in swing states.

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