Harris at CNN town hall: "I do pray every day, sometimes twice a day"

Driving the news: Harris told Cooper that she called her pastor, Reverend Amos C. Brown of the Third Baptist Church of San Francisco, after President Biden announced that he was withdrawing from the 2024 race.

• "It was an extraordinary day, that Sunday, when the president called me," Harris said. "I instinctively understood the gravity of the moment, the seriousness of the moment."
• She said she called Brown because she "needed that spiritual kind of connection, I needed that advice, I needed a prayer."
• Harris added: "I was raised to believe in a loving God, to believe that your faith is a verb, you live your faith."

By the numbers: The muted focus on faith this election comes as 28% of adults consider themselves religiously unaffiliated, per the Pew Research Center.

Zoom in: Harris, who often talks about the influence that her mother has had on her, also opened up about the grief surrounding her mother's death during the CNN town hall.

• "Remember them as they lived and not as they died," she said of grief.

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