In Reading, Pennsylvania, about two-thirds of the city’s 95,000 residents are Latino.
A parishioner prays at St. Peter the Apostle Catholic Church in Reading, Pa., on Sunday, June 16, 2024. Reading is 67% Latino, according to U.S. Census figures, and home to high concentrations of people of Dominican and Puerto Rican heritage as well as Colombians and Mexicans, who own restaurants and other businesses around town. – Religion and politics frequently overlap in Reading, an old industrial city in one of the most pivotal swing states of this year’s presidential election.
This is a place where, when the mayor is told that his town is 65% Latino, he takes pride in saying: “It’s more like 70%.”found that eight in 10 Latino registered voters say their vote can make a difference. “Biden doesn’t know what he’s saying. He doesn’t know what he’s doing, and we have a country divided,” Vega says. Trump is “a person of character. ... He looks confident. He never gives up; he’s always fighting for what he believes.”
It’s true that Reading still leans mostly Democratic. But the Trump campaign doesn’t want to miss out on the opportunity to turn it around. It recently teamed up with the Republican National Committee and Pennsylvania GOPin a red-brick building near the Democratic mayor's downtown office. “Things change, even for churches,” he says. Clergy “realize the importance that they hold as faith-based leaders and religious leaders and they’re making a call of action through their congregations.”A few blocks from St. Peter’s, a crowd gathers inside First Baptist Church, which dates back to the late 19th century.
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