Fact check: Has David Jeremiah publicly endorsed any candidates in the 2025 US presidential election?

1. Why a 2015 meeting matters now: a flashback that clarifies but does not confirm an endorsement

A 2015 article documenting David Jeremiah’s meeting with Donald Trump and a public prayer for him provides context but stops short of recording an official political endorsement; Jeremiah’s team explicitly stated he had not endorsed Trump and was not endorsing candidates at that time, illustrating a longstanding public posture of spiritual engagement without formal political endorsements ^[1]. This historical interaction is often cited in later political narratives, but the specific reporting shows Jeremiah delineated personal prayer from political endorsement, and his representatives reiterated that boundary in 2015, which remains relevant when assessing claims about 2025 endorsements because it establishes a precedent of non-endorsement language used by Jeremiah’s team ^[1].

2. What contemporary reporting fails to show: absence of Jeremiah in candidate coverage

A March 2025 profile of potential Republican successors to Donald Trump mentions leading Republican figures and trajectories but does not reference David Jeremiah or any endorsement by him, indicating mainstream political coverage of the 2025 field did not identify Jeremiah as a public endorser in that piece ^[2]. The omission suggests that, at least in large-scale political analyses of Republican prospects, Jeremiah was not a cited influencer endorsing candidates; absence in this context reinforces the finding that there is no clear, reported endorsement from Jeremiah within the examined reporting windows ^[2].

3. Cross-check with partisan local endorsements: no crossover to Jeremiah

A 2025 voting guide from a state-level progressive organization lists that organization’s endorsed candidates for local primaries but does not mention David Jeremiah or any federal presidential endorsements attributed to him, showing that neither progressive local endorsement trackers nor national political profiles included him as a public endorser during the sampled 2025 coverage ^[3]. This silence across ideologically diverse outlets and local endorsement compilations strengthens the inference that Jeremiah was not acting as a public political endorser in the 2025 presidential cycle as represented by these sources ^[3].

4. Reconciling public prayer and endorsement: how sources distinguish spiritual acts from political support

The key factual distinction across the available reporting is that public acts like meeting with or praying for a candidate do not automatically constitute a political endorsement, and Jeremiah’s communications framed such acts as spiritual rather than political; his team’s denials in 2015 set a precedent repeatedly relied upon by later coverage to separate spiritual engagement from formal political endorsement ^[1]. The sources supplied show journalists and organizations treated Jeremiah’s interactions as noteworthy but did not document a shift from spiritual outreach to explicit endorsement language in 2025 reporting, which is central to assessing any claim that he publicly endorsed a 2025 presidential candidate ^{[1] [2]}.

5. Bottom line and caveats the data reveals: a limited but consistent picture

Based solely on the supplied reporting, there is no evidence that David Jeremiah publicly endorsed any candidate in the 2025 U.S. presidential election, and available documents emphasize prior denials and an absence of endorsement mentions in national and local political coverage examined here ^{[1] [2] [3]}. Caveats include that this analysis is limited to the presented sources and their publication dates; absence of evidence in these items is strong but not definitive proof that no endorsement exists elsewhere, yet within the provided materials the conclusion of no public 2025 endorsement by Jeremiah is supported.