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Poll: Evangelicals flocking to Trump
Politico ^ | 01/26/16 06:06 AM EST | Nick Gass

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.


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To: TexasCruzin
Estimates are 300,000+ will come out to Caucus.

Then its over for Cruz. He talked like he was giving his concession speech yesterday.

61 posted on 01/26/2016 9:35:43 AM PST by Red Steel (Ted Cruz: 'I'm a Big Fan of Donald Trump')
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To: montag813

‘Oh ye of little faith.’


62 posted on 01/26/2016 9:48:30 AM PST by TexasCruzin ( He always hits back.)
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To: Red Steel

Ye and I never thought about that but his speech begging pastors to stop Trump did sound like a concession. Rush just got through reading it. He’s pleading Ted’s case. Pathetic.


63 posted on 01/26/2016 9:52:07 AM PST by TexasCruzin ( He always hits back.)
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To: TexasCruzin
‘Oh ye of little faith.’

Correct. I am all about the data.

64 posted on 01/26/2016 9:55:28 AM PST by montag813
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To: Theodore R.
I expect to vote for Cruz too, but I am rarely on the winning side. I have little hope that Cruz can win much of anything. Heck, he might even be defeated for senator in 2018.

BOL!

Please let us know your stock/economy predictions. One of our female in laws has picked the wrong everything for decades. We would buy when she screamed sell and vice versa.

As she has become wiser in age, she is no longer the one we look for re bad advice.

65 posted on 01/26/2016 9:59:03 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Trump has not been allowed by many posters on this site to change his views from 20 - 30 years ago.)
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To: DoughtyOne

You got that right.

Not all Evangelicals are suicidal.

Not all Evangelicals appreciate “pathways to legalization”, as a reward for invading our country.

Not all Evangelicals fail to recognize overt pandering to CoC agenda and the Wall Street globalist donors feeding on that agenda.


66 posted on 01/26/2016 10:00:13 AM PST by RitaOK ( VIVA CRISTO REY / Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Who counts Paula White as an Evangelical? But, if she has a microphone, TRUMP is going to take the opportunity.


67 posted on 01/26/2016 10:04:08 AM PST by RitaOK ( VIVA CRISTO REY / Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming)
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To: HiTech RedNeck; Aleya2Fairlie; Jim 0216
Thanks for posting your question/clarity!

What I need to do and believe to be a real Christian is between me and My Maker: by Aleya2Fairlie, 1/25/2016

If conservatism is about anything other than freedom, individual, political, and economic, I am not interested. on 1/25/2016, 7:16:44 AM by Jim 0216

68 posted on 01/26/2016 10:04:52 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Trump has not been allowed by many posters on this site to change his views from 20 - 30 years ago.)
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To: dforest

It’s a potential pitfall.

Here’s where he could go with good theology and escape the trap. He could say frankly that, as he reads the bible, this is premature and is waiting for an official personal presence of Christ, which would be absolutely unmistakable and nobody could argue with it.

BUT WILL HE?


69 posted on 01/26/2016 10:05:22 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Not if he really believes it.


70 posted on 01/26/2016 10:06:37 AM PST by dforest
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To: Fantasywriter

I heard it from Trumps mouth, and saw it. He was calling Ted Cruz a selfish jerk among other things.
This is not how to win over good, decent people.


71 posted on 01/26/2016 10:06:57 AM PST by vpintheak (Freedom is not equality; and equality is not freedom!)
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To: Grampa Dave

We need to look at the principles, which in fact are godly ones if we do it right.

What Cruz professes is less important than how Cruz lives it. (And the same goes for Trump.) Trump might have the little that he knows, going better than Cruz has the lot that he knows.


72 posted on 01/26/2016 10:07:21 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: The Unknown Republican

I agree.


73 posted on 01/26/2016 10:07:29 AM PST by vpintheak (Freedom is not equality; and equality is not freedom!)
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To: dforest

And that’s an open question.

I really hope he doesn’t go that route, because that would knock him out of the picture, maybe even for other things (like court appointments) and bring disrepute on the household of faith. On the other hand, it would get a consequential matter of theology into public discussion. God can always show silver linings from dark clouds.


74 posted on 01/26/2016 10:09:20 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: RitaOK

You’ve got it all wrong.

Trump is the crony here.

Goldman Sachs? Good. Good employer. Great loaner...

Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), nah, working for them is a great thing to do.

Who cares if you’re sleeping with the President and have those mindsets. Those are assets I tell ya.


75 posted on 01/26/2016 10:09:30 AM PST by DoughtyOne (Free Republic Caucus: vote daily / watch for the thread / Starts 01/20 midnight to midnight EST)
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To: vpintheak

Ouch, that is not diplomatic of Donald.

But is he in fact being a selfish jerk?

It might kind of tie in to that dominionism if he is. He thinks God has already dished up the world to him on a silver platter, whereas God has said wait, you’re eligible to get some spoils, but you won’t see anything like what you are talking about until Christ does that personally. The Father thought it important enough, in fact, to test His Son on the matter to show the world not to buy the devil’s baloney about it.


76 posted on 01/26/2016 10:12:36 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Keep posting the great questions and messages that make us think!

I may not agree with you all the time, but you make me think.


77 posted on 01/26/2016 10:17:59 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Trump has not been allowed by many posters on this site to change his views from 20 - 30 years ago.)
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To: vpintheak

And anyhow there aren’t any “good decent people.” There are lousy rotten sinners some of whom think they are good on their own, and some of whom understand that only the free grace of God can fill them with goodness and behave with condign thanks and love.

The first might get offended. But God has said they are like chaff in the wind.

The second might stop and think, we know the language is harsh but is there any truth to it, that’s what really matters.


78 posted on 01/26/2016 10:19:31 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: vpintheak

Let see
Since Trump attended Billy Graham’s last sermon and is active in Samaratans Purse. Some may be followers of the Graham family

Jerry Falwell Jr spoke highly at Liberty U AND has now endorsed him

There were forty plus evangelical. who prayed with him at Trump Towers

Jeffers from Texas is in his corner

20 plus black pastors greeted and welcomed him to Georgia and prayed with him before the rally there.

There are others but none as great as the unordained one who fathered and then walked away from his son only to return after the son became successful. God forgives all.


79 posted on 01/26/2016 10:21:42 AM PST by hoosiermama (Make America Great Again by uniting Great Americans)
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To: Grampa Dave

Thanks for the moral support... we ought to be looking into these questions. It can take more than one pair of eyes to get a good view, I definitely agree. There might be facts on the ground that I am ignorant of.

Understanding more or less what God is doing in the world today, and what people’s responsibilities to Him are, and how they are reacting, is key to keeping score, once we DO know the facts on the ground. The battle doesn’t always go to the strong or the race to the swift, etc.


80 posted on 01/26/2016 10:22:32 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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