We got into this with a deep sense of conviction and a sense that there were things happening in Washington, D.C., that were not okay, that people were being hurt by decisions that were being made there. There was corruption. There was belittling and demeaning people. I just kept saying: This is not okay. Somebody’s got to do something.

Finally, earlier this year my wife looked at me and said: “Why not you?” And we began to pray more seriously about that. So we jumped in the race.

. . . I’ve been reading through the Psalms during the campaign. Often, David talks about his enemies reviling him or harassing him. Those passages in the Psalms never really spoke to me before, but this time, every psalm I read with these passages, I’m like, “Wow. He was going through what I’m going through right now.”

Those passages really began to speak to me in ways that they never had before. What I found interesting, though, was David — or the psalmist — often then says, tear my opponents limb from limb, or destroy my opponents. But when I came to those verses, I just kept remembering Jesus, who told us to pray for those who persecute us, who told us to love our enemies.

I thought Jesus’ answer is a much better answer.

. . . In the Democratic Party in particular, that’s not often talked about publicly, but I think that’s going to change. I think there’s people saying, “Okay how does our faith in particular inform our ethics?”

Here, I think of the 2,000 passages in the Bible that speak about being concerned for the poor, being concerned for widows and orphans or the stranger in your midst. Love one another. Love your neighbor as you love yourself. So many other passages.