Source: Time
Donald Trump’s campaign is preparing to announce an Hispanic advisory board of evangelical pastors to help mobilize support for the GOP nominee.
Several evangelical Hispanic pastors tell TIME they have been invited to participate and that they are preparing to expand their outreach for Trump to Hispanic evangelical communities.
Cuban-American pastor Mario Bramnick of Miami says he will be part of the advisory board. It a step toward a far more targeted Hispanic outreach effort for the GOP nominee, whose unfavorable nationwide among Hispanics hover around 80%. “We were advised that Mr. Trump will be at meetings with key Hispanic leaders in Miami, Texas, and other key Hispanic populated areas,” Bramnick says. “We expect dates will be forthcoming.”
Bramnick is a chapter director for the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference (NHCLC), the largest Hispanic evangelical association of some 40,000 member churches. He says he has not yet endorsed a candidate, but adds that the campaign has recently approved him as a Trump surrogate.
NHCLC’s president, pastor Samuel Rodriguez, Jr., has repeatedly been critical of Trump’s plan to build a southern wall and deport with force the roughly 10 million undocumented immigrants currently living in the United States.
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