Vice President JD Vance has made faith a huge part of his political identity.
He wasn’t baptised, but as a teenager attended Pentecostal services after reconnecting with his biological father, who had become devout in the faith. After a phase as an “angry atheist” as he attended Yale Law School, Vance reconnected with religion and eventually, as an adult, converted to Catholicism.
The vice president seems to take an esoteric approach to his new faith. Earlier this year, Vance said it was “very, very important for the Pope to be careful when he talks about matters of theology” – a bizarre stance for a Catholic convert to take, given that regarding the Pope as the supreme authority on religious matters is very much a requirement of the religion.
This week, Vance has once again brought the spotlight onto his religious beliefs after giving an extended interview to an evangelical podcast. At one stage, he was asked by the host if he’d ever been in a room that was “spiritually dark”, where “you feel like Satan is presently here or there’s blatant evil” around.
Vance confirmed he had, “in meetings with world leaders”, where he would “feel a certain darkness about it” – a unique form of diplomacy for a politician currently charged with trying to negotiate a peace deal with the new leaders of Iran, for example.
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— Bryce Crawford (@ibrycecrawford) August 29, 2026But it is Vance’s comments about the Antichrist that have garnered the most attention. Vance insisted that he is “doing as much of God’s work as possible… and that if that leads to the end times, okay”, adding that he would be “not shocked if the Antichrist was walking among us”.
A fixation that we might be thousands of years or no more than “a few months” from the Biblical end times – and on wondering who might be the literal Antichrist – is something more suited to the Pentecostal faith of Vance’s youth, rather than the Catholicism he discovered as an adult, and recently published a book about.
Tech mogul Peter Thiel, who previously employed Vance as a venture capitalist, and who then funded his initial run for Senate, is known for his public obsession with the Antichrist – having even suggested it might have taken the form of Swedish eco-activist Greta Thunberg. Similarly, many of the Republican primary voters Vance will need to court for the 2028 presidential nomination are focused on the politics of the end times.
White evangelical Protestants are Maga’s most loyal footsoldiers, and so securing their support is vital to whoever would look to take on his mantle in 2028. Only 23 per cent of US adults are evangelical Protestants, but they make up 31 per cent of the Republicans who still view Trump favourably in 2026. They also broke for Republicans in huge numbers: in 2024, 85 per cent of white evangelical Protestants voted for Trump over Kamala Harris.
More mainstream Christians lean right, but not nearly so hard: 59 per cent of white Catholics voted Trump, as did 57 per cent of mainstream Protestants (by contrast, 83 per cent of Black Protestants voted Harris). It seems Vance has decided his political future lies with the evangelicals – but he might not be going about things in quite the right way. Many Americans will look at Vance’s religiosity with bafflement, if not alarm.Say what you want about Donald Trump – a president not exactly known for his life-long religious devotion, nor for his moral rectitude – but one thing he has been mostly successful at is toeing the line with his religious supporters. Evangelical Maga voters were well aware that Trump was not one of them when they voted for him: his trick was convincing them that despite that, he’s got their best interest at heart, as well as Americans of other faiths.
Crucially, he’s delivered on at least a few of their priorities. It was thanks to Trump’s appointments, after all, that the Supreme Court overturned the decades-old Roe vs Wade ruling, which guaranteed abortion rights across the USA – something the Christian Right had pursued for decades.
Vance isn’t copying the playbook that has worked so well for his current boss. He seems determined to convince the evangelicals that he’s one of them – belief in the Antichrist and Satanic influence, and all. It’s a risky change of tactic, and one that might leave him wishing he’d stuck to Donald Trump’s approach.
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