Sentences with phrase «of evangelicals voted»

We compromised those things we value when 83 percent of evangelicals voted for (President Donald) Trump.

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.

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.

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

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

For one thing, the religious revival of the 70s - 90s was fading, and the successes of the 1990s political marshalling of evangelical votes by the Religious Right had provoked an emotional counter-reaction, one documented by the many books sold by the «New Athiests» and more scientifically by various sociologists.

According to the polls, Donald Trump is winning more of the evangelical vote than the previous Republican nominee, Mitt Romney, did in 2012.

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.

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.

While many polls show Trump receiving most of the evangelical vote, others that focus on religiosity or leaders are more nuanced.

Surgeon Ben Carson (9 %) and Kentucky senator Rand Paul (4 %) also picked up a handful of evangelical votes.

«If we show up, if we let folks know that we're interested in them and we share a lot of common values, then we're not going to win 100 percent of the evangelical vote.

We might not even win 50 percent of the evangelical vote.

Not exact matches

Perkins's remarks reflect a wider trend among white evangelicals (81 percent of whom voted for Trump in the 2016 election): Many choose to disregard Trump's decidedly debauched, decades - old public persona to focus on his anti-LBGTQ and anti-abortion stances.

Several major evangelical figures, including Jerry Falwell Jr., and Franklin Graham, both of whom serve on Donald Trump's unofficial evangelical advisory council, have spoken in support of Moore, and, according to the latest Fox News poll, 65 percent of white evangelicals in Alabama still plan to vote for him.

The Evangelicals stay home rather than rewarding the Republican party with their votes on Election Day as a result of throwing Akin to the wolves.

As for the «evangelicals» who hitched their wagon to the blasphemous Romney thinking that Jesus would have voted for someone who openly denies His Diety and sovereignty, and who hijacked the discussion of faith in this country to hide their actual agendas of hate, racism, division, and greed, the election result is another lesson to them to not drag Holy God down into the vile realm of man's political systems.

Despite the pleas of conservative Christian leaders, large numbers of self - identified evangelicals continue to vote for Trump.

Before the 1970s, evangelicals voted as often for Democrats as for Republicans, but in the wake of the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s, a Supreme Court decision ending prayer in public schools, and the legalisation of abortion in 1973, the Republican Party recognised an opportunity to build a new coalition of Christian conservatives upset with the cultural changes sweeping the country.

candidate, more than 50 million voters, including, crucially, millions of evangelicals, voted for the dimwit.

He has ONLY changed his stance recently to gain the votes of evangelical Christians.

(1943), was voted by the American evangelical periodical Christianity Today in 2006 as one of the top 50 books «which had shaped evangelicals».

Both politicians and so - called Christian leaders are stoking the anxieties of evangelicals to drive them into the voting booth or to drive them out of the culture, but as Henri Nouwen said, «Fear only engenders fear.

My great concern for evangelicals in the United States, whether they are pragmatically voting for Trump or withdrawing from politics altogether, is how they are embracing fear as a legitimate motive for followers of Jesus Christ.

A candidate isn't going to get anywhere with most conservative evangelicals if they support a woman's right to chose, or if the candidate supports strict separation of church and state, and maybe even opposition to teaching Creationism is going to lose their vote.

Known as the Religious Right, vocal Christian leaders on radio and television convinced an entire generation of evangelicals that faithfulness to Christ meant voting for the Republican Party.

I know evangelical Christians are not crazy about a Mormon being the nominee but most of us are voting for him anyway.

Ladies and gentlemen, a lot of Evangelicals, et al vote primarily Republican for one reason and one only.

There's been much speculation about whether white evangelicals, who have accounted for more than a third of Republican votes in recent elections, will turn out in force for Mitt Romney, a Mormon who for years supported abortion and gay rights.

But because of political circumstances and the way Gingrich parried a question about the accusation during Thursday's CNN debate, the episode may cause relatively little fallout among evangelical voters, who are expected to make up about 60 % of the vote in Saturday's South Carolina primary.

The moral of this story is that evangelicals in Iowa saw all of the white horses running and voted for one.

Some reporting points to the 81 percent of evangelicals who voted for president Donald Trump as a contributing factor to the drop off.

The vote was split among a field of evangelicals in every race that he mentioned.

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.

More than three - quarters of self - identified white evangelicals plan to vote for Donald Trump in the fall (78 %).

Everything I ever needed to know about voting and evangelicals came from watching exit polls during the presidential election of 2004.

When faced with two disagreeable candidates, 60 percent of the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE) board members polled last month said that Christians should vote for the candidate they dislike the least, while 28 percent said to vote for a third - party candidate and 12 percent said to not vote for that particular office.

«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.

Fifty - seven percent of Iowans who voted in the caucuses this year were evangelical Christians.

About 73 percent of white evangelical voters said they would vote for Romney in 2012, while 78 percent stand behind Trump today.

But left with only Trump or Clinton as options, 93 percent of Republican or Republican - leaning white evangelicals said they will vote for Trump.

«In their comments, some evangelical leaders suggested that voting for a third party candidate or abstaining for that office was futile or a vote for the winning ticket,» noted the NAE on the «lesser of two evils» choice.

You are Mormon, a Muslim, Catholic, you have no chance winning the election because the conservative evangelicals only want to vote one of their own kind as president.

Evangelical churches that frequently support conservative candidates are finally admitting something the rest of us have known for some time: Their young adult members are abandoning church in significant numbers and taking their voting power with them.

If young evangelicals were concerned about regulating «morality» instead of global social issues then they would all be voting for Perry.

While a majority of the evangelicals who voted in 2016 supported Trump, there can be no doubt that his candidacy and campaign caused a sharp divide among Christian voters — if you need proof, just scroll through Facebook or Twitter or bring up the new president at church.

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.

Evangelical religious conservatives probably just shouldn't vote at all... that's not the kind of group i want making decisions on the running of our country.

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.).

most of the so call evangelical christians will NEVER vote for him no matter what and his typical «base» are usually non-evangelicals and also most minorities... what is Obama trying to do?