"That's despite Pope Francis and other prominent Catholics' rebuke of the candidate for railing against immigrants and other minority groups."

These "pundits" need to realize that for an increasingly number of practicing Catholics, Francis'  ongoing, tiresome rebukes are read as an endorsement. That is to say, much of what he snarks off about is good and holy.

The candidate's criticism was of illegally present "immigrants" (non-immigrants) and criminals, not anyone else. "Minority groups?" The term has no meaning. Catholics always have been, and very much remain, a minority group in the United States.