Trump courts Latinos in Miami as part of launch of evangelical coalition

In a 75-minute rally-style address — but with more religious overtones — Trump touted his record on social issues and noted that the evangelical vote helped power his improbable victory in 2016, proclaiming: “We’re gonna blow those numbers away in 2020.”

“Evangelicals . . . have never had a greater champion, not even close in the White House, than you have right now,” Trump told a racially diverse crowd of thousands at El Rey Jesús in Miami. …

The Pew Research Center’s 2018 national survey of Latinos found that 36 percent of Hispanic evangelical Christians approved of Trump’s job performance in summer and early fall of that year — a figure that was just about half the level of approval Pew has found among white evangelical Protestants, which was 69 percent in early 2019 and similar in more recent polling. CONT.

Seung Min Kim & Sarah Pulliam Bailey, Washington Post