CHRISTIAN POST/ Leonardo Blair-
Michael McClain, the longtime pastor of the historic Liberty Hill Missionary Baptist Church in Catawba, South Carolina, has been hired by former Vice President Joe Biden’s local campaign to help woo the powerful bloc of churchgoing voters ahead of that state’s 2020 Democratic presidential primary.
Biden’s campaign confirmed the hire to McClatchy Thursday while noting that he has already helped to secure the endorsements of most of a group of 39 local faith leaders in his first two weeks on the job.
South Carolina is an important state for presidential candidates in the crowded Democratic field because it will be the first state to vote in the primaries in 2020 and African Americans who are highly religious are expected to cast a majority of the votes. Continue reading…
