A movement called Circle of Protection, since the start of the campaigns for the presidency started, has called upon each of the candidates to make a video in which there would be a response to the question, “What would you do as president to offer help and protection to hungry and poor people in the United States and around the world?” The remaining candidates, with the exception of Donald Trump, have submitted videos answering the question.
Since a major part of Trump’s base of support is the Evangelical community, we Red Letter Christians ask all Evangelicals to be in touch with the Trump campaign offices in their communities and urge them to ask Trump to either post a video with his answer to this question or put out some kind of written statement that declares his intensions concerning the ways he offers hope for those who Jesus called “the least of these.”
Supporting this plea are such prominent Christian leaders as:
David Beckmann, President Bread for the World
Galen Carey, Vice President for Government Relations, National Association of Evangelicals
John Carr, Director Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life, Georgetown University
Sekinah Hamlin, Director, Ecumenical Poverty Initiative
Commissioner David Jeffrey, National Commander, The Salvation Army
Carlos Malave, Executive Director, Christian Churches Together in the USA
Sister Donna Markham, OP, PhD, President and CEO, Catholic Charities USA
Diane Randall, Executive Secretary, Friends Committee on National Legislation
Amy Reumann, Director of Advocacy, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
Jonathan Reyes, Executive Director, Justice, Peace and Human Development, U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops
Gabriel Saluguero, President, National Latino Evangelical Coalition
Barbara Williams Skinner, Co-Chair, National African American Clergy Network
Jim Wallis, President and Founder, Sojourners
Jim Winkler, President and General Secretary, National Council of Churches of Christ
