Trump's Faithful Evangelical Flock
Trump's Faithful Evangelical Flock Rant #8 ( Opinion ) Originally March 1, 2020; Posted March 10, 2020 It will shock no one to hear that White evangelical Christians in the United States overwhelmingly back Donald Trump's presidency; victory without them would have simply not occurred. Somewhere between 25% and 41% of Americans identify as evangelical or "born again" Christians, meaning that they consider Jesus Christ their lord and personal savior. They constitute a bloc of voters worth roughly 1/4 of the American electorate; in 2016, a full 26% of voters in an exit poll identified as evangelical. This article tries to downplay this group's intense attachment with Trump--if I considered myself evangelical, I would too! The author makes the argument that not every single White evangelical showed up to vote, that statistic doesn't differentiate between White and minority evangelicals, not all of those who consider themselves evangelical go to ch...