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		</div><p>US presidential hopeful Donald Trump has appeared to raise questions about his likely rival Hillary Clinton&#8217;s religious faith at a closed-door meeting with evangelical leaders.</p>
<p>In video footage, the presumptive Republican nominee appears to suggest the public does not know &#8220;anything about Hillary in terms of religion&#8221;.</p>
<p>&#8220;You know, she&#8217;s been in public eye for years and years, and yet there&#8217;s no, there&#8217;s nothing out there. There&#8217;s like nothing out there,&#8221; Mr Trump told the group.</p>
<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s going to be an extension of Obama, but it&#8217;s going to be worse, because with Obama you had your guard up, with Hillary you don&#8217;t. And it&#8217;s going to be worse,&#8221; he warned.</p>
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<p>A spokeswoman for Mr Trump&#8217;s campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment on exactly what the billionaire meant.</p>
<p>Footage of Mr Trump speaking at the meeting at a Times Square hotel, which was closed to reporters, was posted by attendee Bishop EW Jackson on his Twitter feed.</p>
<p>Bishop Jackson said Mr Trump had been talking about the idea that conservatives are constantly scrutinized over their religion, how devout they are and their positions on social issues.</p>
<p>&#8220;He was saying in the context that liberals and the Democrats don&#8217;t get those kinds of questions, they don&#8217;t get their faith examined in that way,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>&#8220;He wasn&#8217;t questioning her Christianity, but he was questioning the implications of her faith, compared to how conservatives tend to have their faith examined.&#8221;</p>
<p>Mrs Clinton grew up in the Methodist church, attending church youth group and teaching Sunday school, like her mother.</p>
<p>While she does not often talk about her faith on the campaign trail, she occasionally quotes biblical verses and mentions her experiences in church.</p>
<p>&#8220;I am a person of faith. I am a Christian. I am a Methodist. I have been raised Methodist,&#8221; she told voters in Iowa in January.</p>
<p>In the posted footage, Trump also takes issue with the idea of encouraging prayers for all leaders.</p>
<p>&#8220;I said: Well you can pray for your leaders, and I agree with that, pray for everyone. But what you really have to do is you have to pray to get everybody out to vote for one specific person,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>&#8220;And we can&#8217;t be again politically correct and say we pray for all of our leaders because all of your leaders are selling Christianity down the tubes, selling evangelicals down the tubes.&#8221;</p>
<p>Mr Trump has sometimes struggled to discuss religious issues. He has declined to cite his favourite biblical verse and has toted around a photo from his confirmation as evidence of his Christian upbringing.</p>
<p>But in another video clip from Tuesday&#8217;s event, Mr Trump talked about the meaning of faith in his life.</p>
<p>&#8220;Christianity, I owe so much to it in so many ways, through life, through having incredible children, through so many other things,&#8221; he said, noting his great support from religious voters in Republican primaries.</p>
<p>&#8220;The evangelical vote was mostly gotten by me,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>Mr Trump also talked in another clip about the lack of &#8220;spirit&#8221; in inner cities.</p>
<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve got to spiritise (sic) this country,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And I&#8217;m not only talking about the inner cities. I&#8217;m talking about everywhere.&#8221;</p>
<p>Mr Trump&#8217;s campaign also announced the formation of a new Evangelical Executive Advisory Board that will advise the candidate &#8220;on those issues important to Evangelicals and other people of faith in America.&#8221;</p>
<p>Members of the new group include former Minnesota congresswoman Michele Bachmann, Liberty University president Jerry Falwell Jr and Faith and Freedom Coalition leader Ralph Reed.</p>
<p>Bishop Jackson said that he had walked into the meeting as more of an anti-Clinton voter than a pro-Trump one, but said the meeting had changed his view.</p>
<p>&#8220;The thing I&#8217;ve heard most people say is, &#8216;He moved the needle,'&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>&#8220;People who came in with reservations, they have fewer reservations. Others left thinking: &#8216;Maybe I need to take a look at him again.'&#8221;</p>
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