Donald Trump polling stronger with evangelicals than Mitt Romney four years ago

[TomCADem]

Source: MSN/LA Times

Donald Trump does not speak often about his Christian faith, but it’s not a problem for many evangelical voters.

A new poll released Wednesday by the Pew Research Center shows that 78 percent of white evangelical voters would vote for Trump if the election were held today. That’s higher than the 73 percent of evangelicals who voiced support for Mitt Romney, an active member of the Mormon Church, at the same point in the 2012 presidential race.

The survey, which queried 2,245 voters and was conducted June 15-26, found about a third of white evangelical respondents said they strongly support Trump’s campaign. By contrast, about a one-quarter of evangelicals said they “strongly” supported Romney at this point four years ago.

Evangelicals are a key voting bloc for Republicans. White evangelical Protestants make up one-fifth of all registered voters in the U.S. and, according to Pew, one-third of all voters who say they identify with or lean Republican.

Read more: http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/donald-trump-polling-stronger-with-evangelicals-than-mitt-romney-four-years-ago/ar-BBuj5CM

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I think this goes to show that evangelical Christians is just code for racists who go to church. As recently noted in a Samantha Bee episode, the rise of the Christian right was not due to abortion, but because the federal government cracked down on Christian Universities that continued to segregate. This is why the more racist Trump acts, the more support he gets among racists who happen to go to church.

http://www.motherjones.com/media/2016/05/samantha-bee-explains-how-right-became-so-obsessively-religious

In the words of Samantha Bee, former GOP presidential hopeful Ted Cruz "was grown in a vat to be the perfect evangelical candidate." So how did he lose evangelical support to a loud-mouthed New York billionaire? On Monday night's episode of Full Frontal With Samantha Bee, the host joked, "Most evangelicals said, 'Nah, we're going to go with the thrice-married, foul-mouthed tit judge who likes Planned Parenthood and thinks Corinthians is a type of car upholstery.'"

Bee then unpacked the surprisingly brief but society- and politics-changing relationship between the Republican Party and the evangelical community, from its very beginnings to the elections today. It started in the early 1970s when Paul Weyrich, a co-founder of the Heritage Foundation whom Bee describes as a "Dwight Schrute understudy," realized he could tap America's churches for "potential Republicans" and found the perfect vehicle in a prominent court case.

"It wasn't abortion that birthed the religious right," she said. "It was good old white nativism and anti-government anger when the IRS challenged evangelicals' God-given right to go to school without black people."

[Tal Vez]

1. Romney was a Mormon.

If Trump begins supporting polygamy, the evangelical voters will not show up.

[TomCADem]

9. Your Post Doesn't Explain Why In Indiana...

...Trump grabbed so much of the evangelical vote from Cruz who would seem to be an evangelical's dream candidate.

[7962]

13. Guess they knew Cruz's dad was a nutjob!

[Tal Vez]

23. Cruz was never anyone's dream candidate. The man looks and sounds like

Joe McCarthy. And, Joe McCarthy's family had nothing to do with the assassination of President Kennedy.

[ToxMarz]

25. Because religion is about power and Evangelicals want to win so they have power

They are using politicians just as much as politicians are using them. Match made in Heaven.

[demosincebirth]

33. I guess they must have liked when he talked about "who's got the bigger one."

Jeez, they are such phonies.

[bucolic_frolic]

2. Evangelicals are all fouled up

Divorced casino playboy who lives off casino profits? Such a good fit!

Mitt should have been in their wheelhouse. Never did understand that one.

[AntiBank]

20. it was the magic underwear

[Bluestar]

21. Grew up in that church

They hate Mormons and also Catholics. You must believe in their idea of the real Jesus story. The belief in the Mormon prophet Joseph Smith and the Catholic emphasis on mother Mary disqualifies them from being real Christians.

[onehandle]

3. So they like bigger fools and scam artists?

Why do they like Jesus, who was no fool and would kick Donald Trump's anti-Semitic ass out of the Temple?

[wisteria]

4. Crazy.

[treestar]

5. Hypocrites

And yet they would judge the truly religious once married Hillary as less. They are so insincere in their so-called Christianity. This proves it stands for "white people" to them.

[63splitwindow]

10. Their moral compass is so whack they hate Jimmy Carter. nt

[63splitwindow]

6. Some of those crazy scumbags believe he will expedite the Apocalypse...

in which all of their enemies will be slaughtered and begin eternity in hell and they will live happily ever after. Yeah, they are underwear stains.

[mdbl]

37. Nutjobs they are!

[niyad]

7. serial adulterer, con man, hypocrit and grifter? yes, indeed, a perfect fit!

by the way, we should amend the "evangelical christians" to reichwing evangelical xians. As my dear friend Betty (now deceased du member) used to say, "I am the thing they fear. a LEFT-WING evangelical christian" (and so was most of the congregation of her church)

[7962]

14. And if he picks Newt, they have SIX marriages between them!

Talk about "family values"!

[niyad]

16. well, their families, anyway.

[humbled_opinion]

30. The people I work with

claim he will pick Mia Love....

[7962]

31. Now THAT would be something, but never happen

[keithbvadu2]

8. Political Christians rather than Christians of faith

The Donald who does not have to ask forgiveness from Jesus.

Now it has become an accepted article of faith for Evangelicals.

[book_worm]

11. another example of how many evangelicals are hypocrites.

[kimbutgar]

12. Born agains are still the same a holes they were before they found Jebus

Everyone in my life that says they are evangelical born again are still the same jerks I knew previously.

[LonePirate]

15. Trump spouts more hate than Rmoney so of course Evangelicals would like him more.

[niyad]

17. and let us not forget all that unprotected sex der drumpfenfuhrer had in the 70's--you know,

that was so like being in vietnam.

[63splitwindow]

19. the bile his followers blithely let slide...

and that military school was like being in the military (that he evaded with a phony medical deferment)

[niyad]

22. it is remarkable the bilge water these cretins will swallow.

[George II]

18. I love the way these pollsters word their polling questions/results:

"A new poll released Wednesday by the Pew Research Center shows that 78 percent of white evangelical voters would vote for Trump if the election were held today."

One has to wonder how many would vote for Trump if the election were held in November? That's when this election will be.

Why don't they simply ask "will you vote for Trump in November?" ?

[Martin Eden]

24. Aren't evangelicals supposed to be Christian?

How can someone who reveres Jesus Christ and his teachings possibly vote for Donald Trump?

[63splitwindow]

26. ...

[demosincebirth]

35. They pick and choose from the Bible and yet they teach the opposite. Also, big megachurches

make a lot of money for expensive suits and big cars. All of that with fake "tears."

[mdbl]

39. Religions are the biggest Tax scam in this country

They should all pay taxes.

[Cryptoad]

27. Amazing,,,,,

I have inspected Trump's "fruit" for years and have yet to find a single example of Christian Values.

[Still In Wisconsin]

28. What a bunch of rubes.

All I can say is, oy vey...

[trueblue2007]

29. how can this be? TRUMP IS NOT A CHRISTIAN. i see him being the Anti-Christ.

[63splitwindow]

38. ...

[TexasBushwhacker]

32. Plenty of evangelicals consider Mormonism

and Catholicism to be cults.

[demosincebirth]

34. They deny Christian History from the resurrection to nineteenth century when their movement

started.

[DonCoquixote]

36. this proves the xtians

have NO, repeat NO backbone. They want Trump because they think he will bring back their precious CSA.

[Bradical79]

40. Mormons are viewed almost as badly as Muslims in some evangelical circles

I've got a pamphlet somewhere warning about Mormons from my evangelical days.

[haele]

41. Desperation. They need the return of Jesus/the apocalypse to avoid responsiblity.

And even the most brain dead understand that Trump will give them their apocalypse, screwing with their sworn "enemies" the Liberals at the same time. So long as the Liberals have been smote, and they are finally respected (like Fredo...) as the favored protectors of their mean-spirited, slacker God, who cares if the world spirals into chaos?

Haele

[LiberalLovinLug]

42. These results are the biggest reason yet to show the scam of organized religion

And the mindset it keeps people in. I was brought up in this atmosphere. They are in a state of perpetual vulnerability to whatever messaging anyone with enough charisma, with enough salesmanship ability to manipulate. This is because they have already submitted to the ultimate leap of faith...a giant bearded old man/god in the clouds. They are preconditioned.

All a politician has to do, ie..GW Bush, is pretend to be a Christian, bow his head once in awhile and pretend to pray etc..Because they are desperate for acceptance and validation. Even though they are supposed to reject "the world" and whatever it thinks of them. They can't even see the sin of pride in those actions so blinded by the idea that having a President in office that says he is on their side, on Gods side, is another drop of 'proof' of God's existence and hand leading the nation. It makes no difference if the candidate is "flawed". Because God would never, ever, allow someone to pull the wool over their eyes with a charlatan. Or even if he was a charlatan, their must be some perfect reason in God's great plan for him. "All things work together to those who love God."

Christianity, like all organized religion, is a sick mind-numbing cult that robs millions of people of their greater potentials. They actually celebrate the idea of becoming like sheep. They are the perfect empty vessels for some asshole like Bush or Trump to dominate them.