"evangelical voters" refers to people who are religious and have conservative beliefs, particularly from the Christian faith. They often prioritize and vote based on issues aligned with their religious values and beliefs.
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The idea that moral hypocrisy hurts you
among evangelical voters is not true, if you're sound on all of the fundamentals.
Back then, during his first bid for president, he faced opposition from candidates including Mike Huckabee, a former Baptist minister and favorite
of evangelical voters who billed himself as the «Christian leader.»
However, among GOP
evangelical voters who did not pick Trump in the primaries, a large enthusiasm gap remains.
Now that Romney has outlasted the other candidates to become the Republican nominee for president, DeMoss is using that street cred to help the candidate close the deal
with evangelical voters in the weeks before Election Day.
None overlap with the top considerations of white
evangelical voters in the pews: terrorism, the economy, and foreign policy / immigration.
Now, fully 78 percent of white
evangelical voters say they would vote for Trump if the election were held today, including about a third who «strongly» back his campaign.»
Huckabee can make money by selling books to his base; the Republican establishment can afford to lose the vote of most
conservative evangelical voters as long as those voters don't ally with another large segment of the electorate.
The latest polls by NBC and CNN show Trump still solidly leading Ted Cruz among white
evangelical voters at large.
«While
many evangelical voters say they «strongly» support Trump over Clinton, this does not necessarily mean Trump is their ideal choice for president or that they are convinced he shares their religious convictions,» Pew stated.
When asked what should be Trump's first priority as president, white
evangelical voters most often picked health care (31 %), immigration (13 %), the economy (11 %), and unemployment (10 %).
Nearly half of
evangelical voters go for one guy — the most rabid conservative in the bunch — despite the fact that he is highly unelectable by every reasonable measure.
West shows his cards at the end of his article when he finally mentions the Republican political project, which he had masked before as his alleged concern for a suspiciously
Christian Evangelical voter.
Despite vice presidential candidate Mike Pence's mission to
assuage evangelical voters» doubts about the views of Donald Trump, a plurality of evangelical senior pastors (44 %) remained undecided last month about which candidate to vote for, according to a new survey from LifeWay Research.
Just prior to Cruz's concession, polls showed anywhere between 16 percent to 24 percent of
churchgoing evangelical voters faced with a Trump vs. Clinton matchup, would choose to stay home or vote for a third - party candidate.
While 70 percent of white
evangelical voters told the Pew Research Center last month that Supreme Court appointments were «very important» in deciding who to vote for, the Johnson Amendment wasn't even on the list.
Trump and Clinton proved a contentious pair from the start —
more evangelical voters planned their pick out of distaste for the other candidate than out of enthusiastic support for their choice, according to the Pew Research Center.
A successful populist conservatism has to
combine evangelical voters with a large share of moderately conservative voters in order to have a serious chance at the Republican nomination.
Meanwhile, more than a quarter of white
evangelical voters gave him a failing grade of a D or F. Trump's overall campaign grade is the lowest among any presidential candidate — winning or losing — since Pew began collecting data in 1988.
While the Religious Right had been in cardiac arrest, at the last minute white
evangelical voters wheeled in the crash cart and restored its rhythms.
When you read the narrative, what Balmer means by Religious Right is really a coalition of leaders and organizations within the evangelical world who have sought to
organize evangelical voters along a particular set of issues.
There has been much handwringing in the evangelical world over the seemingly high levels of support for Donald Trump among self -
proclaimed evangelical voters in Republican primaries.
Even if all the conservative / tea party /
evangelical voters stay home next November, Obama still won't carry those states.
Some independent groups could try and make up for the lack of a unified ground game, with Ralph Reed for instance trying to
mobilize evangelical voters and play a role similar to that of the unions on the Left.
Last night was no exception: we covered topics ranging from the politics of Obama's gay marriage support to the changing demographics of North Carolina to the effect of Romney's Mormonism
on evangelical voters, with plenty more in between.
January 30, 2016 • The latest Iowa Poll shows a much closer race between Trump and Cruz
if evangelical voters turn out at the same level they did four years ago.
In 2012, Rick Santorum won Iowa on the strength of his support
among evangelical voters, but he got only 8 percent of the votes of New Hampshire Catholics — despite being Catholic himself.
According to a Pew Research Study from earlier this month, only 16 percent of
evangelical voters said they would vote for her.
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.
The president's pro-life platform was an incentive
for evangelical voters, particularly millennial - aged women, who turned out for Trump more than their male counterparts, CT Women reported.
One major theme of this election year has been the role of
evangelical voters in Donald Trump's electoral success.
About 73 percent of
white evangelical voters said they would vote for Romney in 2012, while 78 percent stand behind Trump today.
Indeed the notion that anything close to a majority
of evangelical voters support Trump is simply a media myth.
But polls show that despite all of this, Trump remains favored among
evangelical voters.
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.
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.