Sentences with phrase «with evangelical voters»

My Take: Why evangelicals should dump Gingrich At the moment, Newt Gingrich appears to be riding high with evangelical voters.

CNN: Passing significant test, Gingrich wins more S.C. evangelicals than rivals If there were any doubts that Newt Gingrich, a thrice - married convert to Catholicism, could connect with the evangelical voters who make up the Republican Party base, Saturday's South Carolina primary put them to rest, with the former House Speaker winning twice as many evangelical votes as anyone else in the race.

(CNN)- At the moment, Newt Gingrich appears to be riding high with evangelical voters.

Not exact matches

In recent months, those voters have consolidated their support behind another freshman senator, Texas» Ted Cruz, whose own belief and rhetoric more closely aligns with the state's conservative strain of evangelical Christianity.

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.

But in the early primary state of South Carolina, with voters scheduled to go to the polls on Saturday and candidates working the state furiously this week, local evangelical pastors are using their influence to rally church members towards salvation, not electioneering.

As long as the Republicans were winning presidential elections with the robust support of evangelical voters, it seemed that evangelicals had swept the field of Protestant religion in the United States.

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.

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

CNN: Anti-Obama mail piece: «We are no longer a Christian nation» Focus on the Family, the Colorado - based social conservative organization founded by evangelical author and radio host James Dobson, is targeting Iowa voters with a mailing that quotes President Obama as saying «we are no longer a Christian nation.»

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.

In 1998, at the height of the Clinton impeachment battle, evangelical voters were constantly confronting accusations from their secular, leftist friends that «it was all politics,» that evangelicals were less concerned with Bill Clinton's indiscretions than they were about his party identification.

Des Moines, Iowa (CNN)-- Focus on the Family, the Colorado - based social conservative organization founded by evangelical author and radio host James Dobson, is targeting Iowa voters with a mailing that quotes President Obama as saying «we are no longer a Christian nation.»

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.

A recent Pew survey found that 56 percent of Catholic registered voters and 89 percent of black Protestant registered voters (two - thirds of whom are evangelicals, according to Pew) side with Clinton in the upcoming election.

A successful populist conservatism has to combine evangelical voters with a large share of moderately conservative voters in order to have a serious chance at the Republican nomination.

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.

But there was some question about whether Obama's support with evangelicals would draw one out of three evangelical voters (as Clinton did in 1992) or one out of four (as Kerry did in 2004).

Mark DeMoss, a senior adviser to the Romney campaign helping with outreach to evangelicals, says he has been discouraging Republican voters from making too big a deal of the candidates» religious faith.

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»).

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.

Last night was no exception: we covered topics ranging from the politics of Obama's gay marriage support to the changing demographics of North Carolina to the effect of Romney's Mormonism on evangelical voters, with plenty more in between.

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.

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

Facing a primary threat from a Democrat with strong gay support, Monserrate has sought to hitch himself to evangelical voters in his Queens district.