Sentences with phrase «for evangelical voters»
In addition, she would certainly appoint progressive judges to the Supreme Court, which is regularly polled to be among the highest concerns for evangelical voters this year (see box).
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candidate, more than 50 million voters, including, crucially, millions of evangelicals, voted for the dimwit.
Although he has a track record of breaking promises — both to his voters and his wives — some evangelicals would rather gamble with Trump than lose for certain with Clinton.
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.»
By Dan Gilgoff, CNN.com Religion Editor (CNN)- The ex-wife of a Republican politician alleges her then - husband asked if they could have an open marriage, so evangelical «values voters» rethink their support for him, right?
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.
«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.
«At that time, nearly three - quarters of white evangelical Protestant registered voters said they planned to vote for Romney, including one - quarter who «strongly» supported him.
During Trump's announcement, the president referenced the importance of this appointment to voters, and with Gorsuch's selection, he has satisfied the hopes of many evangelicals for another conservative justice.
About 73 percent of white evangelical voters said they would vote for Romney in 2012, while 78 percent stand behind Trump today.
And how often does «care for the poor» register as an important political issue among evangelical voters?)
Elect Voters At the outset of his thoughtful «The Evangelical Voter» (February), John G. West complains that the Romney campaign did not do more to cultivate Evangelical support while it did establish «outreach groups» for Catholics and Jews.
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.
«It's definitely true that in many ways, white evangelicals and black Protestants or black evangelicals, or evangelicals from other racial and ethnic minorities have a lot in common,» the Pew Research Center's associate director, Greg Smith, told NPR for its exploration of the true number of evangelical voters.
According to a Pew Research Study from earlier this month, only 16 percent of evangelical voters said they would vote for her.
As a wave of disappointed voters announced on Twitter that Trump's election has led them to drop the label evangelical, den Dulk speculated that evangelical believers who voted for Clinton may have been less likely to identify that way in exit polls, widening the born - again gap between the two candidates.
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.
Born out of his own background as an Evangelical Christian, Snyder established the first ever YDA Faith & Values Initiative in 2011 to provide an opportunity for young voters to make a connection between their faith convictions and their political involvement within the Democratic Party.
The problem is that Huckabee's support of a national sales tax (the FairTax) and his habit of engaging in identity politics gestures makes it difficult for him to win over voters outside his evangelical base.
They do, however, follow the direction of the cultural groups to which they have some residual attachment: for example, traditionalist evangelicals who voted for Perot supported Republicans in congressional contests, while secular Perot voters supported Democrats for the House and Senate.
It's puzzling in the same way that Mitt Romney's campaign was also successful among evangelical voters, despite the fact that one - third of them (32 %) said they are less likely to vote for a Mormon.
«For example, the gap among voting blocs that gave a B or better to the Republicans versus the Democrats was greater among white evangelicals than all other religious groups and all voters, as reported in these data,» he wrote.
Maybe he fares well amongst bankers, insurance execs, and oil company types who bought and paid for him as well as the evangelicals contingent who believe that you've got to be «born again» to run this country, but for any thinking and reasonable voter Perry is simply unacceptable.
Luckily for the Republicans, the majority of these evangelical voters think Obama is a Muslim so they would be forced to vote for Mitt in the general election.
Rodriguez joined assistant editor Morgan Lee and editor - in - chief Mark Galli to discuss why the church should not retreat from culture, what led 60 percent of Latino evangelicals to vote for Trump, and why Christians should register as independent voters.
The answer is closer to the latter: Exit polls say 26 percent of American voters called themselves evangelical or born - again Christians, and of these, 74 percent voted for McCain, with 25 percent voting for Obama.
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.
In addition, one must also realize that these polls only address Republican primary voters, but there are significant groups of evangelicals who are Democrats or Independents, so the anti-Trump vote amongst all evangelicals in the country might reach 80 - 90 % once non-Republican primary voters are accounted for.
First, while Trump has in some states carried a plurality of evangelical voters, the same data reveals that, on average, 64 % of evangelicals in all southern states voted for someone other than Trump.
Health care was the No. 1 policy priority for white evangelical voters (and the American public as a whole) in the recent election, the Pew Research Center found.
59 % of registered voters think Trump has respect for evangelicals 51 % think Clinton respects evangelicals also
For example, Charles Krauthammer muses on why evangelicals prefer Trump and in the debate last night Megyn Kelly referenced a close association between Trump and evangelical voters.
«Religion is a proxy for trustworthiness of a candidate, especially for white evangelical voters,» said Robert P. Jones, a pollster who focuses on religion and values questions.
It is only fascist retardican minion evangelical idiot voters that are not for health care reform.
The reality is 65 million people voted for Trump... and while a lot of those votes came from people who were legitimately frustrated with both political parties and wanted someone to shake up the system, and a lot of votes cam from traditional doctrinaire Republican voters who held their nose and voted for the guy because they wanted a tax cut, and other voters were pseudo-moralistic Evangelical hypocrites who wanted to reward McConnell for STEALING Merrick Garland's Supreme Court seat, there were a whole lot of Trump voters — including a lot of voters from Pennsylvania's «T» — who voted for Trump because they are racist, white supremicist xenophobes who saw in Trump someone who spoke their language and would «make america great again» (read «make america WHITE again»).
However, Black Protestant voters, majorities of whom are Evangelical, voted 96 percent for Pro-Choice Democrat Al Gore and only 4 percent for George Bush, the Pro-Life candidate.
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.
The poll shows Cruz scoring new love from the party's most conservative members, with evangelical and tea party voters showing major support for him.
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.
This week Pres. Donald Trump selected Gorsuch, who has been on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit since 2006, from a list that appealed to conservative and evangelical voters.