Sentences with phrase «evangelical vote»

The problem isn't how evangelicals vote; the problem is what evangelicals believe.

When we look at evangelical voting patterns, they haven't changed.

More than 80 percent of white evangelicals voted for Trump in the 2016 presidential election.

People who obviously changed their voting habits to elect a Democratic majority (male voters split 50/50 last night, a third of Evangelicals voted for Democrats) were taking a chance on a party in which Hillary is now the standard bearer.

Romney ended up with almost 8 in 10 white evangelical votes in 2012, according to exit polls.

As Romney's and Huntsman's ability to win evangelical votes in the approaching South Carolina presidential primary has become a major question in the presidential campaign, the Pew survey finds that half of Mormons believe that evangelical Christians are unfriendly toward them.

CNN: Passing significant test, Gingrich wins more S.C. evangelicals than rivals If there were any doubts that Newt Gingrich, a thrice - married convert to Catholicism, could connect with the evangelical voters who make up the Republican Party base, Saturday's South Carolina primary put them to rest, with the former House Speaker winning twice as many evangelical votes as anyone else in the race.

(CNN)- If there were any doubts that Newt Gingrich, a thrice - married convert to Catholicism, could connect with the evangelical voters who make up the Republican Party base, Saturday's South Carolina primary put them to rest, with the former House Speaker winning twice as many evangelical votes as anyone else in the race.

CT has noted how most pastors aren't voting Trump, charts on evangelical voting on Super Tuesday, how most Americans still want a religious president, and whether they think Bible reading could clean up the election.

During the Obama election years, as many as a quarter of evangelicals voted Democrat; with Clinton, it was nearly 10 percentage points less than that.

However, in South Carolina about a third (34 %) of self - identified evangelicals voted for Trump, more than the 29 percent of non-evangelicals.

In the media's instant analysis, a «splintering» of Iowa's evangelical vote among numerous candidates made it difficult for them to influence the selection of the Republican presidential nominee.

Given this situation, it is not surprising that few Evangelicals voted for Perot, and that those few who did showed lower levels of religious commitment.

If Huckabee can dominate among conservative evangelical votes but only conservative evangelical voters, it is less likely that an anti-establishment candidate can assemble a winning coalition.

White Evangelicals voted overwhelmingly for Trump in the general election, after propelling his campaign in the primaries.

Last week, Donald Trump said that if evangelicals vote, he would win the 2016 presidential election.

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«Let's say that Muslims and Evangelicals both voted in a state, democratically, to ban gambling and drinking alcohol on the grounds that they both believe it is immoral,» Lombardi said.

«Some polls estimate that 81 percent of white evangelicals voted for Donald Trump.

For there are there are many evangelical votes, many candidates who win their support, and a multitude of motivations for their engagement in the rough - and - tumble of American politics.

A plurality of self - identified white evangelicals voted for Trump (40 %), while the majority split their votes between Ted Cruz (34 %), Marco Rubio (11 %), and John Kasich (10 %).

Meanwhile, white evangelicals voting Democrat this year are dramatically doing so in response to Trump's candidacy.

Evangelicals are seen as a potential pressure group on Republicans, who typically get 70 percent or more of evangelical votes.

After Santorum's 32 %, Ron Paul received 18 % of the evangelical vote, and Gingrich, Perry, and Romney each received 14 %.

But consider this: as R.R. Reno noted, in Iowa, 60 % of the evangelical vote went to Catholic and Mormon candidates.

The evangelical vote won't matter in New Hampshire, which Romney has sewn up... apparently.

Can you please show me where the Republicans have won without the evangelical vote?

Look at the number of evangelicals voting for Santorum vs the number voting for Romney.

After dismal performances in Iowa and New Hampshire, Gingrich dominated the evangelical vote in South Carolina and has made a strong pitch to evangelical voters in Florida.

Evangelicals voting for Roman Catholics or Mormons is not an indicator of squat.

Reed's opinion that there is no evangelical vote and the far right are complex thinkers who are not influenced by political catch phrases is downright laughable.

Actually, Ralph, «when commentators prognosticate about the «evangelical vote» we might ask how this country has drifted so far from the intent of the Founding Fathers by granting Christianity such a prominent place in the political tent.

Donald Trump is now the president - elect, the winner of at least 279 votes from the electoral college and 81 percent of the white evangelical vote, according to exit polls.

Both have bucked their party's conventional wisdom on winning the evangelical vote, offering a more compassionate approach to immigration (Huckabee) and making the case that poverty is a moral values and family values issue (Huckabee and Santorum).

evangelicals vote for Obama show the establishment that youre votes do count and this year you be the swing vote...

So they rather vote for a non-Christian, one who does not believe in the deity Christ, vs. Obama, a Christian who may have a doctinal issue in re abortion and gay rights with some of us «African American evangelicals»??? This is very interesting to say the least, evangelicals voting for a non-Christian over a Christian??? Conclusion, they would vote for anyone over Obama, an African American.

Piper refers to Trump's «divisive rhetorical style... and his reckless Twitter form of leadership,» and says, as his third point, that a «huge percentage» of white evangelicals voted for Trump «even though the character issues were screaming to be taken more seriously» (Statistically, around 80 percent of white evangelicals voted for President Trump in the 2016 election.).

Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum, who rode evangelical support to victory in the first - in - the - nation Iowa caucuses earlier this month, each got 21 % of the evangelical vote in South Carolina.

No candidate had even 25 % of evangelical support in the most recent poll, raising the possibility that Iowa's evangelical vote will be pretty diluted this week.

CNN's Erin Burnett talks to Pastor Robert Jeffress about the Evangelical vote being key to a Romney victory.

With Huckabee on the sidelines, other Republican White House hopefuls will have a better chance of picking up evangelical votes, which accounted for more than half the GOP electorate in Iowa and South Carolina in 2008, according to polling.

While Trump claims to have wrapped up the evangelical vote, exit polls in Nevada showed that he did better among those who said they were not «a born - again or evangelical Christian.»

George W. Bush won a third of the evangelical vote in Iowa in 2000, splitting that vote with Steve Forbes and more explicitly social conservative candidates like Gary Bauer and Alan Keyes.

The truth is that evangelical vote has never been monolithic.