MONROEVILLE, Pa. — Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance spoke Saturday at an event hosted by a self-described Christian “apostle” who believes former President Donald Trump is destined to save America from Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris, who was sent by the devil to “take Trump out.”
Vance walked onto the stage at a town hall at the Monroeville Convention Center, near Pittsburgh, in front a few hundred people attending the “Courage” tour, a traveling neo-Charismatic Christian revival organized by Lance Wallnau, a prominent evangelical pastor. Wallnau has used the tour to travel to battleground states, encouraging evangelicals to vote for Trump and to sign up as poll watchers and election workers.
“I got baptized in 2019,” Vance said to scattered cheers, recounting the story of how he rediscovered his Catholic faith late in life.
Vance’s town hall was a mostly routine recapitulation of his campaign talking points: He blamed the fentanyl…