Latino evangelicals are a growing voter bloc as parties vie for their support ahead of the 2024 election

A national effort is underway to rally evangelical voters around Harris, signaling the Democrats’ intent to try to peel off Latino evangelicals from Trump’s base.

Inside Chicago’s McCormick Place center during the Democratic National Convention last month, one sign stood out: “Evangélicos Con Harris.”

The group is part of a national effort to rally evangelical voters around Vice President Kamala Harris and signals the Democrats’ intent to try to peel off Latino evangelicals — a growing and highly coveted voting bloc — from former President Donald Trump’s base.

“That’s the community we need to be reaching out to,” Patricia Ruiz-Cantu, an organizer for Evangélicos Con Harris and a Milwaukee community leader, told NBC News.

Latinos are the fastest-growing group of American evangelicals, with 15% of Latinos identifying as evangelical Protestants.

Although Latino evangelicals had traditionally narrowly sided with Democratic presidential candidates, including expressing more support for President Barack Obama than Republican Mitt Romney in 2012, a majority of Latino evangelicals backed Trump in 2016 and 2020.

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