First, if you don’t follow the work of religion reporter Jack Jenkins, you should, even if you don’t consider yourself religious. Haynes is running to succeed Jasmine Crockett in the Texas 30th Congressional District, and faces Republican Everett Jackson on the November ballot. Jenkins says there are around 10-12 pastors, seminarians, and ex-pastors running on various Democratic tickets this year, including Haynes. “In polling, people have the most trust for their local pastor or priest, or rabbi or imam or what have you. They may not trust the bishops above them, the hierarchy, the institutions themselves, but their local pastors, they do have some degree of trust and affinity for.”