Stacey Abrams campaigns for McAuliffe in churches: 'Voting is an act of faith'

Democrat Stacey Abrams campaigned for Democratic Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe at Black churches in Norfolk, Va., on Sunday. Abrams narrowly lost the Georgia gubernatorial election in 2018 and has used that defeat to position herself as a voting rights advocate.

Second Calvary Baptist Church and Faith Deliverance Christian Center turned their pulpits over to Abrams, who endorsed McAuliffe and touted her religious bonafides as the daughter of pastors, according to the Associated Press.

"I am the daughter of not one but two pastors," Abrams told Second Calvary Baptist Church congregants, who were required to show cards proving their vaccination status.

Geoffrey Guns, the pastor of Second Calvary Baptist Church, wore a black T-shirt that read "VOTE" and preached to his congregation that the Virginia gubernatorial election is "a very important election."

Sharon Riley, the pastor at Faith Deliverance Christian Center, told Abrams that "we now see that God had a plan" with her Georgia gubernatorial loss in 2018, claiming that her work for voting rights has made her one of the "most significant" Americans.

Abrams told the churchgoers that she once believed it was wrong to mix church and politics, but was convinced by her mother that "politics is always in the church." Her father, she said, told her that the Bible "is one of the most intense political texts... (Read more)

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