Both sides want fight over Biden's faith

When President Trump and Joe Biden on Thursday dueled over the sincerity of the former vice president’s faith, they implicitly acknowledged the outsize role religion is playing in the 2020 election.

Trump started the feud, remarking at an Ohio event that Biden is “against God” and would “hurt God” if elected president. Trump’s words were a crude distillation of weeks of messaging from his campaign — that Biden’s stances on abortion and religious freedom make him a bad fit for religious voters — and they provoked a strongly worded response from Biden.