Sentences with phrase «white evangelical support»

And a Public Religion Research Institute study from last month found that white evangelical support for Trump is at an all - time high.

Therefore, when polls report that 87 per cent of white evangelicals support Trump, the emphasis should be on the white rather than evangelicals.

A recent PRRI / RNS poll reveals that white evangelicals support a Mormon presidential candidate over Obama by an overwhelming 49 % margin, but are simultaneously the religious group most likely to say it is important for a presidential candidate to share their religious beliefs (67 %).

Not exact matches

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.

Evangelical leaders continues to support Trump amid the Stormy Daniels allegations, with White among them.

And polling shows that white mainline and evangelical Protestants continue to support Trump even with the Stormy Daniels news, and do so at higher levels than other religious groups.

The evangelicals (white) have consistently supported greed and violence and bigotry all over the world.

According to Pew Research Center, white evangelical Christians overwhelmingly support Donald Trump for president.

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.

In swing state Ohio, exit polls showed that Obama got 30 % support among white evangelicals.

Washington (CNN)- Forty years after the Supreme Court protected abortion rights in Roe v. Wade, a new survey finds that white evangelicals remain the only major religious group that supports overturning the landmark ruling, even though most such groups find abortion morally wrong.

«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.

And white evangelicals plan to overwhelmingly vote for Trump, though only 46 percent say they «strongly support» him:

According to the study, nearly half (47 percent) of Generation X and millennial white evangelicals (those born after 1964) support the legalization of gay marriage.

During the campaign, the Pew Research Center found that white evangelicals who believe it's become more difficult to be a Christian in America today were more likely to support Trump.

Yet, when (white) Evangelicals support him, I know it is because his invocation of entitlements and welfare resonates with many of their political views, which unfairly tie welfare programs to black bodies.

The hypocrisy here is staggering, for as everyone knows, white evangelicals overwhelmingly support President Trump, a man who has been accused by more than twenty women of sexual assault, who is on record bragging about those assaults, and who was recently found in a Christianity Today poll to be evangelicals» «most trusted celebrity.»

The stark reality is that most white Christians, including more than 80 percent of white evangelical Christians, supported Donald Trump for president, despite his evident immorality, bigotry, and disregard for the dignity of women, (not to mention complete lack of qualification or competency).

So what happens is that when suburban, white evangelicals are challenged to think about race issues, the default move is to think about ways they can start sending money and support to inner cities, and those are not necessarily the same thing.

Initial reports suggest that four out of five white evangelical Christians voted for Trump, continuing their pattern of support for the Republican candidate in US presidential elections since the 1980s.

Among white evangelicals, Democrats won just 20 - percent of the vote, less even than in 2004, when that group flocked to the polls to support George W. Bush, an evangelical who took religious outreach to new levels.

Faith in Public Life: People of Faith Support Minimum Wage Raise Majorities of all religious groups favor increasing the minimum wage from $ 7.25 an hour to $ 10.00 an hour, including black Protestants (87 %), Catholics (73 %), Americans who are religiously unaffiliated (68 %), white mainline Protestants (61 %) and white evangelical Protestants (61 %).

«It's not the label that supported Trump, it's people — White Evangelicals, primarily.

About 47 percent of white evangelicals were less likely to vote for someone who had served as an elected official in Washington for many years, while 34 percent said it made no difference and 18 percent said such political experience would make their support more likely.

Earlier in the year, Pew found that white evangelicals» presidential picks were more determined by distaste for an opposing candidate than support for their selection.

As a recent study conducted by Pew Research Center makes clear — and this is supported by other studies including a significant study released last fall, «A Survey of American Political Culture,» by Dr. James Davidson Hunter, who wrote the book Culture Wars — White Evangelical Protestants are not, as the Washington Post famously called them in 1993, «less affluent, less educated, and more easily led than the average American.»

Self - identified white evangelicals, who lean Republican, showed the strongest support among faith groups for the travel ban, with a 76 percent approval rate in a Pew Research Center survey released last week.

The Pew Research Center has found that self - identified white evangelicals were twice as likely as Americans overall to support the policy (76 % vs. 38 %), which temporarily halts the refugee program and restricts entry from several Muslim - majority countries.

More than half of white evangelicals (54 %) and white mainline Protestants (53 %) would support a law barring Syrian refugees from entering the United States, according to a survey conducted in June by the Public Religion Research Institute.

Half of white evangelicals also believe that there is a «great deal» or «fair amount» of support for extremism among Muslims living in the US.

Among white evangelical weekly church attenders planning to vote for Clinton: 25 % support her strongly 75 % support her not strongly [Pew Research Center # 8]

The more involved white evangelicals are with their churches, the more likely they voted for Trump, with women who attend church more than once a week showing slightly higher level of support (87.5 %) than men (85 %).

While public support for abortion remains at a 20 - year high (57 %, according to Pew Research Center), 70 percent of white evangelicals and 40 percent of women overall believe it should be illegal.

Support for Trump among white evangelicals tends to exacerbate the trends among Americans overall, with regular churchgoers, men, and older demographics more likely to skew Republican.

51 % of all white evangelicals say Trump is moral 68 % of white evangelicals who support Trump say the same 12 % of black Protestants say the same [Pew Research Center # 6]

55 % of all white evangelicals say Trump is «hard to like» 46 % of white evangelicals who support Trump say the same

In Mississippi, where white evangelicals accounted for 80 % of the vote, Romney got 29 % evangelical support, compared with 35 % for Santorum and 32 % for Gingrich.

While Hillary was undoubtedly a flawed candidate, white evangelicals» unprecedented supported of Trump — despite his racism, misogyny, and ethnocentrism — is revelatory, and deplorable.

But the embattled Alabama Senate candidate, who is facing allegations that he sexually assaulted, harassed or made sexual advances toward teenagers, still appears to have the support of a big chunk of his base ahead of the special election being held on Dec. 12: Alabama's white evangelical Protestants.

This is in contrast with white, non-Hispanic evangelical Protestant registered voters, among whom a solid majority supports Romney (74 %).