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David Smith in Washington

‘Trump is inconsistent with Christian principles’: why the Democratic party is seeing a rise of white clergy candidates

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Dauphin county commissioner Justin Douglas introduces Joe Biden in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, on 5 January 2024. Photograph: Bastiaan Slabbers/OOgImages/Alamy

He grew up on a farm in Indiana, the son of a factory worker and eldest of five children. He studied at Liberty, a Christian university founded by the conservative pastor and televangelist Jerry Falwell, and recalls wearing a T-shirt expressing opposition to the Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry.

Two decades later, Justin Douglas is running for the US Congress – as a Democrat.

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