Why evangelical voters continue to support Trump
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Evangelicals overwhelmingly supported former President Donald Trump in 2016 and again in 2020. And there seems to be more of the same this year.
Former President Donald Trump is making a direct appeal to Republican Christian voters. "No one will be touching the cross of Christ under the Trump administration. I swear to you," he told the crowd at the recent National Religious Broadcasters Conference.
Evangelicals overwhelmingly supported the former president in 2016 and again in 2020. And there seems to be more of the same this year.
According to CNN exit polls of the South Carolina Primary, 71% of White born-again or evangelical Christians supported Trump; 70% lent support in New Hampshire, and 53% in the Iowa caucuses.
"We're 100% behind Donald Trump and want to see America great again," Vicky Fukes of Delaware told Scripps News at the 2024 Conservative Political Action Conference.
In 2016, abortion, the Supreme Court and support for Israel led many evangelicals to support the former president — this time they say it's immigration, his track record and a battle of so-called good vs. evil.
