Posted on 01/26/2016 8:08:59 AM PST by Red Steel
Donald Trump's outreach to Christians is bearing fruit, if results of the NBC News/Survey Monkey weekly online tracking poll out Tuesday are any indication.
Among white evangelical Republican voters nationally, Trump earned the support of 37 percent, while Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, whose father is a pastor and has played a key role in recruiting faith leaders to support his son, is at 20 percent. In the same survey conducted the previous week, Cruz registered 9 percentage points higher. Below the top two contenders, Ben Carson earned 11 percent among evangelicals, and Marco Rubio took 10 percent.
The Manhattan business mogul, who is Presbyterian, made headlines throughout the course of the past week for his various interactions with fellow Christians, including a stop at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia, last Monday. Delivering the weekly convocation address, Trump caused a stir when he made reference to a book in the Bible a "Two Corinthians," rather than the usual nomenclature, "Second Corinthians." (Trump later claimed that it was written that way in his notes, and besides, his mother was Scottish and would have said it that way.)
Trump also attended a Presbyterian service in Muscatine, Iowa, on Sunday, at which the pastor made reference to the ongoing immigration crisis, a central plank in the Republican's campaign, and humility, in general. "I don't know if that was aimed at me, Trump said later.
The poll's overall week-to-week standings show little shift with Trump leading the field at 39 percent, Cruz at 17 percent and Rubio at 10 percent. No other candidate received double-digit support.
On the Democratic side, Hillary Clinton's advantage remained in double digits, at 51 percent to Bernie Sanders' 37 percent.
The poll was conducted online from Jan. 18 to 24, surveying a national sample of 9,690 adults, including 8,215 who indicated that they are registered to vote. The poll included 2,327 Republicans and 2,780 Democrats with margins of error of 2.8 percentage points and 2.2 percentage points, respectively.
Could some of these Iowans be for Jebbie and are just keeping quiet, hoping to score a big surprise.
What I posted was for IA...
Sure they are...
Cruz - Trump
50 -34 Tea Party
39 -27 Evangelical
49 -29 Very Conservative
21 -29 somewhat conservative
6 -31 liberal
But we see nationwide Trump blowing the competition away.
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Yeah but they won’t go to the polls in Iowa for the charlatan Trump. Ted been to every diner in all 99 precincts. Just wait for the shocker.
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The territory occupied by Christians today should be considered spoils, not dominion, in a spiritual sense. The point at which the world becomes officially ruled by Christ to the point that the devil is completely ousted, is yet to come in eschatology. To be fair, this is Ted’s father’s wishes. It would help if Ted would clarify his own position here, but he might fear to do it because of fear of offending his father.
Trump wins by 5-10% over Cruz in Iowa. Maybe more depending on turn out.
The definition of an evangelical is a highly debated topic, even among self-professed evangelicals. I highly doubt that Politico or whoever conducted this poll has any understanding of just how meaningless the term can be.
Paztor Jeffress from Texas ~endorsed trump yesterday. Big time southern Baptist evangelical. He said the issue is winning. He thinks trump will still be standing at the end of all this.
If polling were scientific, then people would not be allowed to specify what they thought they were. They would be classified by what they presented themselves to be.
If a census worker came by my house and asked me 'What is your nation of origin?' and I said 'I feel like I'm from Guatemala' I'm hoping they would just chuckle and write 'U.S.A.' on their form.
That’s one way to look at it... he’s the political strong horse, and he isn’t unfriendly to Christians in general, at least not now. He seems to want to make nice, which could mean the Lord is nudging him in that direction.
A Trump coalition is going to have to include input into Trump’s “deal” however, if we don’t want to have a lot of unicorn hair left in his agenda. I appreciate that he is willing to be flexible, but therein lies a danger. We can’t be lazy.
As an evangelical, I can tell you this: I have more problems in my church dealing with Ben Carson supporters than Donald Trump supporters.
That’s because there aren’t any Trump supporters in my Bible-believing, conservative church. At least none who will admit it.
Not very much play here about Trumps Sunday visit to a liberal anti Christian, pro abortion, pro gay marriage Mainline Presbyterian Church in Iowa.
I have seen little coverage of it anywhere.
Trump’s outreach to Evangelicals was his choice for a church on Sunday. The event was described by political reporters as an outreach to Iowas Evangelicals.
However, Muscataine’s First Presbyterian Church belongs to the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) denomination, a liberal Mainline, not Evangelical, denomination that supports same-sex marriage.
Maybe those evangelicals aren’t fond of the Dominionist cult.
This is definitely not his dad’s Presbyterian church, which would have been aghast at such things. It’s kind of like the way Blue Dogs remain Democrat even while their national party slides further left than anything they would countenance. How about more conservative Presbyterian denominations, have they tried reaching out to Trump, saying that this is where you want to be? Seems to me they ought to.
But what CHANCE does Sen. Cruz have either?
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