Survey: 82% of White Evangelicals Would Vote for Trump if Elections Were Today

[NeoGreen]

https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2020/07/01/survey-82-of-white-evangelicals-would-vote-for-trump-if-elections-were-today/

Survey: 82% of White Evangelicals Would Vote for Trump if Elections Were Today
By Hemant Mehta, July 1, 2020

As recently as a week ago, there were headlines about how Joe Biden might be peeling away support from the one voting bloc Donald Trump can’t afford to lose: white evangelicals. The pathetic photo op in front of a church that was preceded by the tear-gassing of protesters was seen as a kind of tipping point for when evangelicals would move away from him.

Roughly 81% of them voted for Trump in 2016, and with a number that high, it can really only go down. And given Trump’s thin margins of victory in a handful of swing states, a small drop-off could be disastrous for his re-election efforts (which would be fantastic news for everyone else).

This time around, those white evangelicals will have to weigh their support for Trump’s unrelenting stream of anti-abortion judicial nominees and constant lip service to their faith with… well, *gesturing wildly in all directions*. Would the pandemic, or the story about Trump ignoring the Russian bounty on American troops, or a faltering economy do anything to push those conservative Christians in Biden’s direction?

Now we know.

They’re not budging.

[hlthe2b]

1. They are destroying what they claim to love most of all with their rank, rank, rank hypocrisy

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These "Xians" long ago removed Christ from the equation, but now they no longer need fear atheists, agnostics, or those of other religions diminishing the importance of faith in this country. They are doing it all themselves.

[NeoGreen]

2. And all other 'xians' of apparent caucasian decent who decry the evangelicals...

...should take care that they're not just the pot-calling-the-kettle-black. None of them look good here:

[Mariana]

19. Trump won in 2016 because most Christians voted for him.

He can't win if he doesn't get the majority of the Christians' votes again this time. Splitting them 50-50 won't do it. He needs the majority of Christians to vote for him or he loses.

[beachbumbob]

3. bottom line, trump has brought massive victories and why would they not support him. They have NO

real religious understanding at all and all they believe in is a bunch of croc

[NeoGreen]

4. Sycophant is as...

sycophant does, whether in politics or in other...

[beachbumbob]

5. yep, they all attract each other for sure and karma can help with some of this

[still_one]

6. In other words, 82% of white evangelicals would vote for a racist, bigot, and sexist if the election

were held today

[NeoGreen]

7. Yep, as would 54% of apparently caucasian catholics...

...and 52% of apparently caucasian protestants...

[still_one]

14. and over 75% of American Jews will NOT vote for trump, though that isn't listed in

the demographic from the OP, but grouped in the "other" category

[edhopper]

8. White evangelicals now make up 17% of the population

and he gets 82% of them. BFD, That's roughly 15% of the vote. Everything he does to keep them pushes away more and more of the other 85% of the voters.

[NeoGreen]

9. And what percent of the population are apparently caucasian catholics and protetants?...

....since they support drumpf by a majority also.

Not a BFD!?

I'll say it again: A Sycophant is as Sycophant does, whether in politics or in other.

[edhopper]

10. Right now

White men seems to be the only group he has kept a clear majority of.

37% of white Catholics BTW.

https://www.thecatholictelegraph.com/trump-losing-support-amid-george-floyd-protests/66888

[NeoGreen]

11. Not according to the Pew data presented above...

...he's carrying approval from more than 'white men', he is carrying >50% approval with certain religious classes too, i.e. subsets, but large portions, of those who identify at catholic, protestant and evangelical.

[edhopper]

12. That chart

does not show any approval over 50% for any groups but White Evangelicals. Which Pew also says is only 17% of the population.

The survey I posted says his approval is even lower with the other groups.

But my point is, the more he chases the White Evangelical vote, the more he loses other voters.

[NeoGreen]

13. The dark blue is 'strong approve' the light blue is 'approve' and together they give...

..net approval.

Plus, I would trust data presented from Pew more than any data presented by 'thecatholictelegraph', any day of the week, especially sunday.

[NeoGreen]

15. A quote/excerpt from your cited source...

...

According to the poll of 1,512 Catholic registered voters conducted from Jan. 28 through Feb. 4, 58% of white non-Hispanic Catholics approved of Trump “strongly” or “somewhat,” and 53% said they were either sure to vote for him in November or there was a “strong chance” they would.

[edhopper]

16. That was Jan

now:

The Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) reported on Thursday that President Trump’s favorability among white Catholics fell from 60% in March to 48% in April to just 37% in May.

[NeoGreen]

17. Pew's data appears to contradict that result...

...and is both more recent and has greater detail in the breakdown of sub-groups and levels of approval.

Plus there is this:

[Mariana]

18. Their support for Trump is religious in nature.

They believe he is God's own hand-picked man for the office of President, whom God raised up and put in place to implement his will. Opposition to Trump, therefore, is the same as opposition to God. Nothing he does or doesn't do, is ever going to convince them otherwise.

The Bible is stuffed with stories about awful men who, according to the stories, God put into positions of great power over others, and showered with his favor and his blessings. These men perpetrated evil that Trump hasn't dreamed of doing, sometimes on God's direct orders, and God rewarded them for it. Considering this, there really isn't any way to convince Christians that God would never favor someone like Trump. The Bible very clearly tells them that the opposite is true.

[Permanut]

20. They have apparently read only parts of their "holy book"..

Romans 13:1:

"Let everyone be subject to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God." Which would have included Barack Obama, of course.

Odd how they kinda ignored that verse from 2008 to 2016.

They also play the abortion card, ignoring the fact that the Republican-controlled Congress could have passed legislation related to abortion and Roe v. Wade in the two years 2017-2018, and Mango Mussolini would have signed it. They talk endlessly about abortion, and do nothing about it. Hypocrites.

[Act_of_Reparation]

21. Everyone who quotes the Bible does so selectively.

It's a mess of contradictions and worthless anachronisms with no consistent message save "toe the line or God will fuck you up".