is culture. Is that what you're doing? I think actually all of you are wrong. I think you're all wrong actually. You want to check? Let's check on this for the next time okay? Should we check on it now? Let's check on it now. Let's do this in real time.

So here here's what I think. I think he identifies with the Hindu tradition and culture. In other words an influence but that his belief of religious belief is Christian. So we can check it right now. If I'm wrong I if I'm wrong you get to see it in real time. Does anybody want to stay and see if I'm wrong? It'll be fun. Don't you like to see me wrong? All right we'll find out the answer to the question and I'll say is Vivek Christian or Hindu? What do you think?

He said I'm Hindu and I'm proud of that. I stand for that without an apology. But wait hold on. So remember I said I didn't disagree that he identified as Hindu but we're talking about his religious belief right? We're talking about his religious belief. So let's get into this religious belief. All right let's see. Better answer shares the same values. How do we get a good answer for this? New York Times don't believe that. Don't want to. News Nation. I'm going to go with News Nation because I'm trying to find an unbiased source. Wait we might have an unbiased source here.

To Jenny Mitchell she is an entomologist at Iowa State University from Boone Iowa. She is a Republican who is currently undecided. Jenny all right listen thank you. Thanks for being here and thanks for coming to Iowa so much. We appreciate your visits. So freedom of religion is a part of our Constitution and obviously a huge part of our country. What do you say to those who say that you cannot be our president because your religion is not what our founding fathers based our country on?

I would say that I respectfully disagree and you know I want people to understand this about me. I would rather speak the truth and lose an election than to win by playing some political snakes and ladders. I mean if I want to map out my political career and really solve for that you know I could fake convert you know I'm not going to do that. I'm going to tell you about my faith. I'm Hindu. Now I went to Christian schools. I went to St. Xavier in Cincinnati and I actually have been on the board of St. X except for hiatus to run for president. And I can tell you with confidence that we share the same value set in common.

I'll tell you about my faith. My faith teaches me that God puts each of us here for a purpose. One God. That we have a moral duty to realize that purpose. One God. That God works through us in different ways but we're still equal because God resides in each of us. Now I had what you would call not a traditional upbringing but probably a very traditional upbringing right? My parents taught me family is the foundation. Marriage is sacred. Divorce isn't some option you just prefer off a menu when things don't go your way. Abstinence before marriage is the way to go. Adultery is wrong. That the good things in life involve a sacrifice. Now are those foreign values in this country? I know it could look that way at times. You turn on the television go to the movie theater your local DEI training at a company or what they're teaching your kids in schools. That could seem a little unfamiliar. I don't think it's unfamiliar to most of us. I think those are the same Judeo-Christian values that I learned at St. X.

When we get to the Ten Commandments what do they say? There's one true God. Don't take his name in vain. Observe the Sabbath. Respect your parents. Don't kill. Don't lie. Don't cheat. Don't steal. Don't commit adultery. Don't covet. That's when it hit me. We share the same value set in common.

There's another core teaching in my faith which is that we don't get to choose who God works through. God chooses who God works through. So we get to that Old Testament a little bit further along. We get to the book of Isaiah. I don't know if many of you are familiar with that one. God chose Cyrus a gentile all the way in Persia to lead the Jewish people back to the promised land. And so yes I believe God put us here for a purpose. My faith is what leads me on this journey to run for president. My gratitude to this country is what leads me.

And even when we think about the founding fathers I'm a fan of history okay. I talked about Thomas Jefferson earlier. We'll stick to Thomas Jefferson. He was a deist actually. Let's be honest about it because the left wants to rewrite our history and tell he was a slave owner an evil man. No I get that but we're not going to have anybody rewriting our history. Thomas Jefferson was a deist. He made the Jefferson Bible. You know how he did it? He didn't believe in all the parts of the New Testament but he took a blade razor blade by hand glued it together and that made the Jefferson Bible which we have today. John Adams wrote letters to Thomas Jefferson actually became something of a Hindu scholar after he left. And so I think it's important to see our founding fathers three-dimensionally not the way that they've been rewritten post 1990 either.

And so yes do I would I be the best president to spread Christianity through this country? I would not. I'd be not the best choice for that. But I also don't think that that's the job of the US president. But will I stand for the Judeo-Christian values that this nation was founded on that I was raised in even in the Hindu faith? Yes I will. You're darn right I will. And as a young person picking up on that strand from earlier I think it's my responsibility to make faith and patriotism and family and hard work cool again in this country. I think they're pretty cool and I think that's my job as your next president.

And to back to the First Amendment we will stand for religious liberty in a way that neither Rep