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James Fishback is a different kind of Republican candidate. At appearances across the state of Florida, where he is seeking the Republican nomination for governor, he fluently uses Gen Z slang and leans into a memeable form of religiosity. At a recent event, Fishback, a Catholic, stood before a cheering crowd of young men as he kissed an icon of Christ the Bridegroom. “I will never kiss the wall,” he said, referring to the Western Wall in Jerusalem, one of Judaism’s holiest sites. “But I will kiss our Lord and Savior.”

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