For conservative politicians who want to court Hispanic voters, Latino evangelicals are the most fertile ground. They are concerned with moral issues and are more likely to side with Republicans more than the Catholic Latino population, polling shows. About 55 percent of U.S. Latinos identify as Catholic; just 16 percent of Hispanics describe themselves as evangelical, according to the Pew Research Center.
While Trump has described his own positions during the presidential campaign as "flexible," he will need to convince Hispanic voters that this is also true of the issues he has made staples of his campaign.
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