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With evangelicals\u2014a mainstay of the Republican coalition\u2014divided over whether to support Donald Trump, Kim Lawton reports that both Trump and Hillary Clinton reached out to that community through video messages to an important Latino evangelical conference. Lawton looks at how Trump is ramping up efforts to secure evangelical support and interviews Trump campaign liaison\u00a0Frank Amedia, a religious broadcaster and pastor of Touch Heaven Ministries in Ohio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pastor Frank Amedia, the Trump campaign\u2019s liaison for Christian policy, says he expects evangelicals \u201cwill hear [Trump\u2019s] heart They will be able to make decisions based themselves upon seeing the heart of the man, not through the media, not through campaign stumping, but face to face.\u201d More →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":160,"featured_media":30839,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","topics-culture-and-society","topics-faith-and-spirituality","topics-race"],"yoast_head":"\nCandidates Reach Out to Evangelicals | May 27, 2016 | Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly | PBS<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link 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