Sentences with phrase «white 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.

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.

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.

Among white evangelical voters, 39 percent believe Trump's leadership will improve race relations, while 21 percent believe it will worsen them.

But white evangelical voters are more or less holding steady.

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 %).

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 half of white evangelical voters (52 %) think Trump would be a good / great president, 3 in 10 think he would be a poor / terrible president (29 %).

Nearly half of white evangelical voters (49 %) gave the press the worst grade, an F.

The latest polls by NBC and CNN show Trump still solidly leading Ted Cruz among white evangelical voters at large.

According to Pew, half of white evangelical voters (52 %) think Trump would be a good / great president, while 3 in 10 think he would be a poor / terrible president (29 %).

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

Among white evangelicals voters — one of Trump's strongest demographics — one in five (20 %) graded the president - elect's conduct during the campaign at an A, while a plurality (31 %) gave him a B, according to new Pew Research Center data provided to CT..

Not exact matches

Not just that, but Trump won 81 percent of white born - again and evangelical Christian voters in 2016, and they might not take too well to being inundated with stories about Trump's alleged affair with a porn star.

According to a Pew Research Center survey of 1,655 registered voters released today, more than half of white evangelicals said they weren't satisfied with their ballot options (55 %), reflecting the feeling of Americans at large (58 %).

With half of voters dissatisfied with both presidential candidates, white evangelicals primarily plan to oppose Clinton.

Black Protestant voters diverge from the much larger group of white evangelicals, who make up one out of five registered voters and one out of three Republicans.

«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.

Among Republican voters, white evangelicals were actually among Trump's greatest skeptics.

«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.

«A strong values narrative attracted many in 2008, including many religious voters who had long eluded the Democrats,» the Rev. Jim Wallis, a progressive evangelical who advises the Obama White House, wrote in an election analysis memo on Wednesday.

Among voters who attend services at least monthly, only 16 percent of white evangelicals, 22 percent of Catholics, and 5 percent of white mainline Protestants said that their churches provided information on voting, the election, or specific candidates this year.

White evangelicals indicated the most frustration toward the press, pollsters, and the Democratic Party, giving each a lower grade than their fellow Christians or American voters overall did.

«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.

«It's important to note that white evangelicals, like so many voters this year, had significant reservations about both candidates,» said Amy Black, professor of political science at Wheaton College.

According to a 2016 Pew Research Center survey, 63 percent of white evangelicals, 63 percent of Republican - leaning voters, and half of all Americans over 65 believe that Islam encourages violence more than other faiths.

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&raqwhite supremicist xenophobes who saw in Trump someone who spoke their language and would «make america great again» (read «make america WHITE again&raqWHITE again»).

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

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