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Alice Herman in Eau Claire, Wisconsin

‘We have to be voting biblically’: the Courage Tour rallies Christians to get Trump in office

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Despite invoking an intense form of Christian nationalism, speakers at the Courage Tour repeatedly decried the label as a smear. Photograph: Design Pics/Nathan Lau/Getty Images/Design Pics RF

By 9am on Monday, hundreds of worshipers who had gathered under a tent in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, were already on their feet. Praiseful music bumped from enormous speakers. The temperature was pushing 90F (32C).

The congregants had gathered in north-western Wisconsin for the Courage Tour, a travelling tent revival featuring a lineup of charismatic preachers and self-styled prophets promising healing, and delivering a political message: register to vote. Watch, or work, the polls. And help deliver the 2024 election to Donald Trump.

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