{"id":86005,"date":"2026-08-31T08:45:53","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T12:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=86005"},"modified":"2026-08-31T08:45:53","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T12:45:53","slug":"liberals-invoking-jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/liberals-invoking-jesus\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberals Invoking Jesus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From Fox News:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1200\/675\/nixon-el-sayed-talarico-faith-and-politics.jpg?ve=1&amp;tl=1\" alt=\"Texas state Rep. James Talarico, Dr. Abdul El-Sayed and Florida state Rep. Angie Nixon\" width=\"386\" height=\"217\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\" data-layout-index=\"5\">Progressives seeking a seat in the Senate are taking a decades-old page from their Republican counterparts, using faith as a political tool to build connections with voters.\u00a0Three progressive Democratic candidates running for the Senate, Florida state Rep. Angie Nixon,\u00a0Abdul El-Sayed\u00a0and Texas state Rep. James Talarico, share a penchant for bucking the Democratic establishment in their meteoric rise this midterm cycle.<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\">They have also incorporated their religions and faiths into their campaigns and messaging to voters, showing shades of the &#8220;Moral Majority&#8221; coalition that formed during the late 1970s in the GOP when former President\u00a0Ronald Reagan\u00a0was running as Republicans sought to tie policy to Christianity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Fox News: Progressives seeking a seat in the Senate are taking a decades-old page from their Republican counterparts, using.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-86005","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86005"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86008,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86005\/revisions\/86008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}