That’s awfully curious, isn’t it?

Indications are that Rose Hammond was signed up to be listed in the Iowa Faith Leader Coalition at the same that Dave Hammond was listed as another member of the Coalition from Dallas County, Iowa.

The two seemed to step forward as “faith leaders” endorsing Donald Trump’s presidential campaign as a pair. Rose was listed as an “evangelist” and Dave as a “reverend”.

Now, anyone can call themselves an evangelist or a reverend. But are these two really leaders of any Christian community in Iowa?

It’s mighty coincidental that there is absolutely no evidence anywhere online of Dave Hammond being a reverend or Rose Hammond working as an evangelist. How on earth could two genuine religious leaders in the 21st century leave no trace of their Christian leadership anywhere online, not in a newspaper article or even in a Facebook post by one of their followers?

A leader isn’t a leader without followers, after all. Still, Rose Hammond and Dave Hammond appear to have no followers.

So who are Rose and Dave Hammond, really?

Back in 2015, when former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee was campaigning for the 2016 Republican Party presidential nomination, David Hammond and Rose Hammond showed up as a pair of supporters of the Huckabee for President campaign. They were listed in a Politico story by Mike Allen as members of the Huckabee Leadership Team in Guthrie County, Iowa, working under the leadership of Huckabee’s Guthrie County chair Louise Wagner.

Nowhere in anything connected to the 2016 Huckabee for President campaign were Rose and Dave Hammond listed as a reverend and an evangelist. They were just local Iowa Republican Party activists.

Can Rose Hammond and Dave Hammond be counted as genuine Iowa faith leaders, supporting Donald Trump for President in 2024?

Is it possible that they’re just really low-profile Christian leaders? Could they be shadowy religious leaders with a following so small that their identities barely show up anywhere at all online, never having been mentioned even once in someone’s Facebook post or in the local newspaper?

If that’s the case, we need to question what it means for someone to be a Christian leader. A leader whose impact is so small that their name almost never appears in any public document or report isn’t much of a leader.

Maybe Rose Hammond and Dave Hammond lead prayers at their family’s picnic sometimes, when the spirit captures them. Maybe they’re part of a small group of people who meet at a local diner now and then to talk about Jesus.

That’s not the impression that was meant to be given, however, when Donald Trump bragged that he had achieved the endorsement of over 300 Christian leaders in Iowa just a couple of weeks before the 2024 Iowa caucuses, including Rose and Dave Hammond.

The impression that was meant to be given in that announcement was that Donald Trump had obtained the endorsement of highly influential Christian leaders across Iowa. The people in the Iowa Faith Leader Coalition were supposed to be power brokers in Iowa’s Christian communities.

It looks an awful lot like the Donald Trump campaign needed to make a big impression in Iowa, and wanted to show a big number of Christian leaders supporting Trump. Dave and Rose Hammond showed up as Trump supporters, and were willing to be added to the list, to puff it up.

Of course, this interpretation could be wrong. It could be that Rose and Dave Hammond are a bona fide Iowa Christian power couple, genuine faith leaders who just so happen to have no followers that ever mention their existence.

If that’s the case, Rose Hammond and David Hammond are welcome to speak up and correct the appearance that their presence on Donald Trump’s Iowa Faith Leader Coalition is completely bogus.

If Rose Hammond is truly a faith leader in Iowa, will one of her followers speak up to tell us the truth about who she is?