Originally published at National Catholic Register
In the final stretch of the campaign, Trump has also pursued Latino Christians in his home state of Florida. On Tuesday, he attended an event near Miami. Among the attendees were Goya Foods CEO Bob Unanue and Catholic actor Eduardo Verástegui.
Former president Donald Trump continued courting Catholic and other Christian voters at a campaign rally in Charlotte, North Carolina, accusing Vice President Kamala Harris of being “destructive to Christianity” and alleging Catholics are “treated worse than anybody.”
The Monday evening “11th Hour Faith Leaders Meeting” rally came 15 days before Election Day in the important battleground state that Trump won in 2016 and 2020. Polls show Trump with a slight edge in the Tar Heel State, with Harris polling just one-half of a percentage point behind the former president — well within the margin of error.
“[Harris is] very destructive to Christianity and very destructive to evangelicals and to the Catholic Church,” Trump told rally-goers. “… She is your worst nightmare. Much worse, much worse than [President Joe] Biden, and he wasn’t so hot.”
Trump referenced a leaked Richmond FBI memo, which outlined plans to investigate a supposed link between so-called “radical traditionalist Catholics” and “the far-right white
