Ron DeSantis is leaning into his Catholicism. Can he convince evangelical voters to support him?
As Gov. Ron DeSantis runs for President, he’s discussing his Catholic faith more openly than ever before. He will court evangelicals at the annual conference of the Faith & Freedom Coalition this weekend.
It’s a shift from a political leader who until recently kept private his church-going habits, but recently revealed he takes his family to various churches for mass in the Tallahassee area.
DeSantis more openly discussed his Catholicism last week in a Christian Broadcasting Network interview.
“God has a plan for you, I still believe that,” he told interviewer David Brody at the time.
While his spiritual revelations have been dismissed by critics as cynical — “I think it’s convenient timing,...
