Vance attends town hall with evangelist who accused Harris of “witchcraft.”

JD Vance is facing criticism over a planned town hall this weekend with Lance Wallnau, a pro-Trump evangelical leader who has supported election conspiracies and accused Kamala Harris of using witchcraft.

“This is Vance’s endorsement of one of the worst, most conspiratorial Christian supremacy spectacles in the country,” said Matthew D. Taylor, a scholar at the Institute for Islamic, Christian, & Jewish Studies. wrote on X on Thursday.

He warned that the event in Monroeville, Pennsylvania, would take on special significance because it was near the site where Trump was nearly assassinated, a near miss that Trump's more religious supporters see as divine intervention.

The Harris campaign, meanwhile, criticized Vance in a statement for appearing alongside a “conspiracy theorist” like Wallnau.

Speaking on an online talk show earlier this month, Wallnau said Kamala Harris' debate performance was linked to witchcraft.

“She can look like a president,” Wallnau said. “This is the seduction of what I would call witchcraft. This is the manipulation of images that creates an impression that contradicts the truth but seduces you into seeing it. So I believe that this spirit, this occult spirit, is working on them and through them.”

The Independent has reached out to Vance and Wallnau for comment.

As The Independent As reported, Wallnau is among a group of evangelical Christian leaders who support Trump as part of their goal to establish the so-called New Apostolic Reformation, an American theocracy. As part of this campaign, Wallnau popularized an idea called the “Seven Mountains Mandate,” which calls on Christians to secure positions of influence in politics, education, family, art, media, business and religion.

Vance City Hall is a stop on a nationwide campaign of pro-Trump religious gatherings called the Courage Tour.

During a Wisconsin Courage Tour event, Wallnau reiterated Trump's claims that the 2020 election was stolen.

“January 6 wasn’t a riot – it was an election fraud intervention!” He reportedly told the crowd.

The Texas-based religious leader has been an open ally of Trump and used his widely followed media platforms to spread false claims about the 2020 presidential election and claim that God had a plan to change the outcome of the election. He also appeared at events in Washington leading up to January 6th and attended the infamous January 6th rally itself from which the Capitol insurrection began.

Wallnau also wrote a book about Trump in 2016, God's Chaos Candidate: Donald J. Trump and the American Unravelingwhich helped solidify evangelical support for the Republican.

This relationship continued to blossom. Election polls in 2020 showed Trump had 75 percent of support among white evangelicals.

However, according to recent polls, Harris is expected to have a five-point lead in Pennsylvania.

Texas-based Wallnau has made outlandish statements in the past, including claiming that climate activists are being controlled by demons.