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From Project 2025 to Evangelicals for Harris, graduates and former faculty of Wheaton College are playing an outsize role in the upcoming presidential election, as American evangelicalism faces a crossroads over a potential second term for former President Donald Trump.
Wheaton College graduate and former Trump administration official Russell Vought is a key architect of Project 2025, the conservative blueprint that seeks to drastically overhaul the federal government under the next Republican president.
At the same time, a growing movement within evangelicalism to stave off Trump’s bid to return to power also includes strong voices emanating from Wheaton College, a flagship evangelical school of under 3,000 students roughly 30 miles from downtown Chicago.
A recent Evangelicals for Harris zoom call featured about 20 speakers, including former Wheaton College visiting assistant professor Joey Cochran. He told the Tribune he’s “thrilled” to support Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris.
“For all of us who believe in democracy, we believe there should be a peaceful transfer of power every four years in the executive branch,” Cochran said. “Until the last transfer of power, I don’t think we ever thought this wouldn’t happen peacefully.”
Read the full story from the Tribune’s Angie Leventis Lourgos.
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