Nicole Shanahan was the vice presidential candidate that was part of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s presidential campaign during the 2024 election. And while the pair ultimately dropped out of the race and backed President Donald Trump, they still managed to pull in hundreds of thousands of votes. And now Shanahan is making headlines for converting to Christianity and getting baptized.
It’s always such a beautiful thing to hear someone’s testimony of how they came to know the Lord Jesus Christ. Lots of people first hear the gospel while hearing someone testify of how Christ entered their life and changed them from the inside out.
Shanahan took to social media platform X where she shared the story of conversion, encouraging those who come across her testimony to think about giving their own lives to Jesus. She then thanked her pastor for guiding her along the path toward Christ.
“It was a quiet January night, just a few days before the presidential inauguration. I was lying in bed in the middle of the night with my six-year-old, Echo, gently calming her after a night terror had awakened her. As she finally drifted back to sleep, I felt a heaviness settle over me, thick and suffocating, like the air before a storm,” she said in the post on X. ” It pressed against my chest, not like a weight, but like a presence—something unseen yet undeniable. At that moment, I could only think to bow my head, close my eyes, and offer a silent prayer to God.
“That next morning in January, I called Diane, who had texted me earlier, “I want to talk with you about getting baptized.”’ She shared. “This felt like the final confirmation of something I already knew: It was time. I called her then, and we decided that on Sunday (the day before President Trump’s inauguration), she and her husband, Peter, would baptize me in my backyard.”
“During that meeting, Diane opened her worn and well-loved Bible—filled with highlights, underlines, and Post-it tabs. A book that had been studied and prayed over thousands of times. She moved through it with laser precision, guiding me to verse after verse as I struggled to read through my blurry, tear-filled eyes…Diane looked at me and said with absolute certainty that Jesus could save me—that His blood is able to wash away sins…” Shanahan said in the X post.”I think it took the pain of that moment, the desperate need for hope, and the unwavering intensity in Diane’s eyes to finally break through the last, most stubborn skeptic in me. When Diane asked if I wanted to be baptized, I didn’t hesitate—I said yes.”
Shanahan then shared that she has always believed that God exists. It was the devil that gave her trouble. She had a difficult time coming to terms with the reality of a being comprised of pure evil being part of the physical world she inhabited.
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The former vice presidential candidate then shared a story of growing up in a home with a father who fell to his own personal demons due to alcohol addiction, revealing he would fall into rage and then scream foul language at the wall.
“He would scream, laugh, cry, and wail all in a single evening, alone downstairs in our home in Oakland… I never seriously considered whether demons were real—until recently. Honestly, my last year in politics changed that. Learning just how far some will go to inflict atrocities on innocent Americans has shocked me awake,” she wrote, according to The Christian Tribune.
“Demons certainly exist, and Jesus is our covenant with God to fight them. When I said “yes” to accepting Jesus as my Savior, I felt something I could hardly put into words. It was like being wrapped in a warm cocoon while becoming a grounded, weighted, immovable obelisk…now, my prayers are directed toward Jesus. He is the bridge between us and heaven—our Intercessor before the Divine Creator,” Shanahan added.
“Jesus longed more than anything to save “God’s lost sheep.” It was the deepest, most unfulfilled desire of the holiest being to walk this earth. And I believe that longing still exists today—an aching truth we’ve ignored, distorted, and misunderstood for far too long,” she stated. ” The universe itself is pressing us forward, like cheese through a grater, forcing us to feel the weight of God’s pain, the sorrow of a Father who gave His only Son, only to see Him rejected instead of upheld as the one true Messiah.”
Shanhan went on to conclude her lengthy post by encouraging those who are searching, who are feeling the same longing she felt when God was pulling on her heart, to “keep knocking. Faith is not about having all the answers but about trusting in the One who does. And when you find Him, you will know you are finally home.”
What a beautiful story of God’s redeeming love. Pray for Shanahan to continue growing in the faith and maturing in the image of Christ.