A would-be public servant, running to be Secretary of State in California, has offered an unusual explanation as to why she wants to enter politics.
Rachel Hamm is standing as a Republican. California’s GOP primary is scheduled for June 2022.
On a recent internet show, she was asked about her decision to run. A clip of the video was shared on Twitter by Hemant Mehta, founder of the Friendly Atheist blog.
California GOP Secretary of State candidate Rachel Hamm said today that she decided to run for office after her son found Jesus inside a closet in their home, and Jesus handed him a scroll telling her to declare her candidacy. pic.twitter.com/LdDLX1j8vS
— Hemant Mehta (@hemantmehta) March 18, 2022
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“I’ve been a prophetic dreamer so I had spent a lot of 2019 and 20 having a lot of political dreams that I was in office,” said Hamm. “And because our youngest son Ezekiel is a seer I went and got him and I said, ‘Hey, can you look around and see what you’re seeing?’
“Because I just really, I get a kick out of hearing him describe, you know, what he sees? And then he goes into the closet – which is where I had been when I was praying – and he said, ‘Whoa,’ and his eyes got like, big as saucers.
“And he kind of like started backing away, and then started bending down and he said, ‘You’ve got a really big guy in your closet, and his power is pushing me to the ground,’ and we had never had … he’d never had that reaction ever, to an angel.
“And so I’m like, is he’s for us, not against us, right? ‘He’s full of light, I can’t even see his face.’ And then he said, ‘and he has a scroll in his hand.’
“And so I was like, then he came with a message, what is the message, and the message was a commissioning. So at the very end, I asked him what his name was. ‘What angel is this?’ you know?
“And he said, ‘Immanuel,’ That wasn’t an angel. It wasn’t an angel that was Jesus himself. And so that’s why I’m running for secretary of state.”
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Hamm, an evangelical Christian, has been married 25 years and is a mother to four sons (“my highest calling”). On her campaign website, she describes herself as an “author, life coach and influencer.”
Hamm’s campaign promotes former President Donald Trump’s claims that the 2020 election was stolen from him (which is not true). Her main election pledges are to introduce voter ID, bring back paper ballots and single-day voting, and eliminate mail-in ballots.
She announced she was running in California earlier this month with an interview on the Steve Bannon podcast, claiming people are wrong to see the state as a Democratic stronghold.
“Actually, it’s very likely Trump won in California and that there’s more fraud in California than all of these other places that we’ve focussed on, like Arizona, Wisconsin, Georgia, etc.”
Hamm has been endorsed by General Michael Flynn and My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell.
Many have reacted with a raised eyebrow to her closet Jesus story.
That’s funny, I just ran into Jesus downstairs – I was looking in the basement fridge for more coffee creamer and He was down there looking for pizza bagels in the freezer – and I asked what he’s been doing and he said “I definitely wasn’t telling people to run for office.”
— Frederick Douglass (@Abolition_Fred) March 18, 2022
This is bullshit. God was in the glovebox of my car whilst I was looking for my owners manual.
I gave him a lift to the nearest train station.
— TF 💉💉💉 (@tiimmaahh) March 18, 2022
I had to do it pic.twitter.com/XtxOcIkrsX
— Funny how secrets travel on (@PlankySmith) March 18, 2022
Is praying in a closet a thing.
Also, before you tell a story on a show, maybe run through it a couple of times and ask yourself does this sound sane. 😬😬😬😬😬— Michelle (@MichelleMangol6) March 18, 2022
My 4 yr old granddaughter told us that ‘the lady her parents captured and keep in a box’ talks to her 😬 Apparently the lady tells her all kinds of things. She also knows that the lady’s name is Alexa.
— ALTMom505 (@AMom505) March 18, 2022
Mister P
The repugnants sure are gullible if they vote for this whack job.
jcool
luckily, she will get fewer votes than caitlyn did.
Man About Town
Besides being a whack job, she’s been married for 25 years, has 4 children, and still talks like a valley girl. She’s, like, SO destined for awesomeness!
Mr. Stadnick
She sounds unsound. Does California need a Secretary of State who has a kid giving her advise from inside of a closet? I sincerely doubt it. Sounds more like mental illness.
Heywood Jablowme
From the headline, I assumed her son is gay and in the closet. Well, maybe that too!
Anyway, Jesus said to pray in your closet (Matthew 6:6) so it’s not unusual at all to see Him hiding in there.
ZzBomb
We really need to just point, laugh, and ridicule these people to the point they never make their way back into the public sphere.
Old Flint
I agree with you but the only problem is, then they claim they are being “persecuted”. Somehow they equate being exposed as frauds and clowns is the same thing as being burned at the stake or being lynched and hung in public
Polaro
I can’t figure out if she’s pandering to the gullible or in need of a mental health intervention. Or both.
Kangol2
Though this unwell woman probably will not be elected in California (or any state on the Pacific coast), the scary thing is she could very easily win statewide office, and probably a federal seat (in the US House or Senate), from a good two dozen states (think Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, South Carolina, Florida, etc., and even ones like Ohio, Kansas, definitely Misosuri, Arizona, etc. with a R behind her name).
linedrive
Mike Lindell is endorsing her? Sounds about right. Delusional people tend to attract delusional people.
bucky619
Did she just out her son?
Larry McD
News Flash! The CA Secretary of State is NOT a “law making” position.
JTinToronto
Next time she goes into her closet to pray……nail it shut!
shaunpaul1234
Tht son is still in tht “closet”!!! Why do th children of looneys at leats 1 or 2, turn out to b gay???
Prob because one or both of the parents is usually in their too!!
Repressed breed repressed!!
zephyr69
Thankfully most of the whack jobs are Republicans. I just hope they don’t get elected. We have enough of them already.
Lilopt
Poor America… You’re wanting so much to self-destroy that you don’t even realise the ridicule you project to the rest of a – slightly more sane – world!
michaelmt1009
Maybe her son and Jesus should come out of the closet….
carllonghorn
Let’s see, “…on an interview on Steve Bannon’s podcast.” That says it all right there. Apparently these people are breeding, and rapidly, which is troublesome.
Doug
Yet another religiously-focused, unbalanced candidate to add to the GOP’s current collection. They seem to gravitate toward this party.
johncp56
Wack her son was hiding in that closet for a good reason his mom is bat shit crazy and possibly a homophobe
MISTERJETT
when did republicans get so dumb?
TBH
Let’s see that scroll. The message was probably written on a roll of toilet paper with a sharpie.
TBH
Those “closet Christians” are the worst.
trojanboy
Gee. Those psilocybin mushrooms reallygrow well in closets eh?
James
She has about as much chance winning in California as hitler has of winning in Israel.
LMG
Jesus was in the closet – “SHOCKING!” That boy better get used to the closet. He’s going to be spending a good deal of his early life in there…unless his mother, who sounds like the mother form CARRIE, is in there praying and wants to be alone. As for the scroll…it was probably a stray part of the Dead Sea Scrolls that Jesus picked up while walking on water.