Billy Graham’s son says he’ll abandon the GOP

In Washington, House Speaker Paul Ryan may have been given a pass by conservatives when it came to last week's passage of a $1.1 trillion spending bill that will keep the federal government running through next September.

But elsewhere? Maybe not so much. From Religious News Service:

Graham has previously said he has no faith in any political party, but his apparent renunciation of his Republican affiliation is an indication of anger on the right and the strong interest many disaffected evangelicals have shown in populist outsiders such as Donald Trump.

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