Sentences with phrase «white evangelicals voted»

Exit polls suggest 81 percent of White evangelicals voted for President - elect Donald Trump.

But everyone knows how that story ends: over 80 % of white evangelicals voted for Trump, which is even more than evangelical George W. Bush could boast.

«Some polls estimate that 81 percent of white evangelicals voted for Donald Trump.

White Evangelicals voted overwhelmingly for Trump in the general election, after propelling his campaign in the primaries.

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.).

Meanwhile, white evangelicals voting Democrat this year are dramatically doing so in response to Trump's candidacy.

With 4 of 5 White Evangelicals voting for Donald Trump, everyone on both inside and outside of Christianity is trying to understand just who this group is.

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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.

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.

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

More than 3 in 4 white evangelicals like Dobson are voting Trump this November, according to the Pew Research Center.

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

«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:

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.

With Huckabee on the sidelines, other Republican White House hopefuls will have a better chance of picking up evangelical votes, which accounted for more than half the GOP electorate in Iowa and South Carolina in 2008, according to polling.

White evangelical Christians voted for him anyway.

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.

In recent decades, white evangelicals — and yes, that's a statistically identifiable voting bloc and I'm using it as such in this article — have been among the most consistent supporters of the Republican Party.

Many white evangelicals, who traditionally vote Republican, are asking what to do next.

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.

But just as religiously committed Evangelical and Mainline Protestants were much more likely to vote Republican than their nominally religious brethren, regularly attending white Catholics gave Bush a narrow plurality over Clinton (41 percent to 39 percent), while less - observant Catholics gave Clinton a bigger margin (44 percent to 33 percent).

Among white evangelicals who voted in the election, only one - third (31 %) said they were «very satisfied» with the options for president, while 27 percent were «fairly satisfied.»

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.

More than half of white evangelicals (56 %) said they were less likely to vote for someone who had an affair, while 42 percent said they didn't care.

Pew reported that in the 2012 presidential election, 95 percent of black Protestants voted for Obama, compared with 20 percent of white evangelicals.

Fewer white evangelicals now say they would be less likely to vote for a gay or lesbian presidential candidate: 54 percent said this in 2016 vs. 71 percent in 2007.

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.

Two - thirds of white evangelicals (64 %) said they would be more likely to vote for someone who had served in the military, while 29 percent said it didn't matter.

«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.

Four in 10 white evangelicals (41 %) said they were less likely to vote for someone who had personal financial troubles; about half said it didn't matter (49 %).

According to Pew Research's exit polls, the Catholic vote went up four percentage points for Trump, while white evangelicals rose three points and «Other faiths» jumped six points.

Though evangelical women have long been involved in political activism, including helping to lead the temperance movement and campaigning for and against women's right to vote, seeking the White House is a more recent and dramatic step.

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 %).

In last year's election, 73 percent of white evangelical women under 35 voted for Trump compared to 60 percent of white evangelical men of the same age.

56 % of white evangelicals are less likely to vote for someone who had an affair 42 % don't care [Pew Research Center # 11]

45 % of white evangelical Trump supporters are voting FOR Trump 51 % are voting AGAINST Clinton [Note: This matches the split among Trump supporters overall.]

Among white evangelicals planning to vote for Clinton: 35 % said their vote was for Clinton 59 % said their vote was against Trump

Abortion ranks low among white evangelicals» top election concerns (% saying each issue is «very important» in deciding who to vote for):

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.

75 % of self - identified white evangelical couples are voting for the same presidential candidate 6 % are voting for different candidates

These five blogs captured the complexity of the (not just white) evangelical vote:

Concerned also by state measures legalizing gay marriage, Mohler said that, aside from the 79 percent of white evangelicals who voted as they should, the «[evangelical] message was rejected by millions of Americans who went to the polls and voted according to a contrary worldview.»

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»).

Winning the votes of white evangelical Christians was a vital push that helped Bush become president — if Obama fails to do the same, science could suffer

Nevertheless, many Americans who self - identify as religious and social conservatives, especially those in the subset of white evangelical Protestants (a powerful voting bloc in Republican politics), continue to cling stubbornly to the orthodoxy of climate denial.