The Trump campaign makes its pitch to Catholic voters

THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN’S big push to woo Catholics, who helped elect the president in 2016, did not get off to a great start in 2020. Even before the kick-off rally for “Catholics for Trump”, scheduled for mid-March, became one of the first political casualties of social distancing, a high-profile church leader in an important swing state had given the outfit a gentle kicking. On learning that the organisation was planning to launch in his city, Archbishop Jerome Listecki of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, who had previously criticised the president’s immigration policies, declared that the church was “in no way affiliated to or sponsoring this event or campaign, locally, statewide or nationally”.