The countdown to the elections is fast approaching. tensions rise ahead of what many are calling the most important elections in living memory: Two strong candidates with completely opposing worldviews face off, fighting for the votes that will give them leadership of the most powerful nation in the Western world.

Both Kamala Harris and Donald Trump know this religion in the United States is a key factor in winning votes of the people. Believing in God – and in a Christian God at that – is a key decision maker for many Americans to vote for the country’s leader.

What religion is Kamala Harris?

Harris’s upbringing was of mixed faith: A Hindu mother and a Christian Father took her to both a black Baptist church and a Hindu temple.

“On Sundays, my mother dressed my sister Maya and me in our best Sunday outfits and send us to the 23rd Avenue Church of God in Oakland, California, where Maya and I sang in the children’s choirshe told Interfaith Youth Core in 2020.

She added in her memoir that her mother took her children to a Black Baptist Church “to ensure that we become confident and proud black women.”

She goes to church regularly and during his election campaign, many references to Jesus and the Christian faith were used to spread his message to the people.

As for Harris’ husband, Doug Emhoff, he’s Jewish. If Kamala won, he would become the first-ever First Gentleman, as well as the first Jewish spouse in the White House.

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What religion does Donald Trump have?

Desert reports that “for a large part of his life, Trump identified as Presbyterianwhich is a mainline Protestant Christian denomination,” saying he remembers attending Brooklyn’s First Presbyterian Church “so fondly as an adult that he contributed $10,000 to a fundraiser for the church.”

However, it is also stumbled when immediately questioned about his beliefstelling CNN: “I think if I do something wrong, I don’t put God in this image», while affirming that he is both Protestant and Presbyterian. “I go to church and I love God and I love my church“, he said.

However, these setbacks do not seem to have harmed his efforts to form close relationships with powerful religious figures in the country, and at the end of his presidency, the tycoon declared himself a “Non-denominational Christian“.

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Both candidates will be judged by many on their religion, even if some states generally take it more seriously than others when it comes to voting for a president.

The Pew Research Center recorded that Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Louisiana and Arkansas are among the most religious states in the country, while New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Vermont, Connecticut and Maine in New England are among the least religious.