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alp227

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5. In fact, John McCain has also disavowed a controversial religious figure who endorsed him in 2008.

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Thu May 23, 2013, 08:14 PM

May 2013

McCain disavows pastors (LA Times 5/23/08)

At a late-afternoon rally in Stockton, McCain said he rejected the endorsement of John Hagee after learning of a recording in which the San Antonio pastor portrayed Adolf Hitler as being sent by God to force Jews "to come back to the land of Israel."

And in 2011, Texas Gov. Rick Perry distanced himself from a controversial endorser, pastor Robert Jeffress, who called Mormonism (the religion of Perry's primary opponent Mitt Romney) a "cult."

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