Posted on 01/01/2020 8:57:08 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
(CNN) Much has been made of President Donald Trump's strong standing with voters on the religious right, especially after a Christianity Today editorial called for Trump to be impeached and removed from office. The editorial generated a lot of press because Trump won white born-again evangelicals with more than 75% of the vote in 2016 and his approval rating with them remains at 75% in CNN/SSRS polling taken in the middle of last year.
Figures such as these, however, can often obscure as much as they reveal. Trump's standing with all religious voters -- and, in particular, nonwhite religious voters -- is considerably weaker than it is among white evangelicals.
Heading into the 2020 general election, Trump can certainly count on the strong backing of white born-again evangelicals. If he loses, however, it'll be in part because his approval rating is only in the low 40s among those who attend religious services at least once a week and are not white born-again evangelicals. Even when we concentrate on born-again evangelicals, there are plenty of nonwhite Americans. In fact, nearly 40% of born-again evangelicals nationwide are not white. This includes nearly 20% who are African American. (In a Democratic primary, the majority of born-again evangelicals are nonwhite.)
Simply put, Trump's not popular with nonwhite born-again evangelical voters. His approval rating with them was a mere 29% in an average of April and May CNN polls. Among African American born-again evangelicals, Trump's average approval rating was just 7%. These figures are pretty much unchanged from the percentage of these groups who voted for Trump in 2016, according to the Cooperative Congressional Election Study (CCES). When you combine white and nonwhite born-again evangelicals, Trump currently has an approval rating in the high 50s. That's certainly higher than his overall approval rating in the...
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Everything has to be about race.
How do they define “a religious voter”?
Regular, church-going Catholics have flipped to the GOP side, mostly because of the culture wars. Show me a Catholic voter who attends Mass more often than on Sunday, or who goes to other religious meetings during each month and I’ll predict about 80% are Trump voters.
Yesterday Marie Harf was on Fox News’s Outnumbered and she repeated the canard that Joe Biden could beat Trump and that Trump’s negatives are so low, that he can be easily defeated. Time will tell, but I predict he will win by a bigger margin that in 2016.
The first one to mention race is the racist.
CNN -read no further.
What a silly waste of words.
Blacks might give Trump 20 percent of their vote.
That would be great.
But an article stating that blacks won’t overwhelmingly vote Trump is just a waste of of energy.
Religious affiliation is not the way to gauge what’s going on with voters.
Unfortunately, race DOES gives us a clearer indication of what’s going on out there.
Only CNN can be so stupid and out of touch as to call evangelicals not religious.
And the FUDmuckers begin in earnest. Buckle up boys - it’s gonna be a rough ride!
Ha ha ha Wile E. CNN go away and come back when you’ve thought up different lie.
Shouldn’t any articles coming from CNN be placed under the “Parody” classification? It damned sure isn’t “News”!
Democrats just speak nonsense through their asshat media. New lies and stupidity every day.
I guessed the source before clicking. I guessed NYT.
Can’t win ‘em all.
Throw enough communistic-progressive pcusa, episcopal, and other false churches ————into that sample——and they can warp it into just another anti- Trump hit piece.
That doesn't count, Catholics aren't Christians! </FR trolls>
cnn can never be taken seriously. They’re all clowns.
If you include the Democrat Satanic voters and politicians and witches in the “Religious” column, well yeah, sure!
>>How do they define “a religious voter”?
Muslims, Leftist Jews, Progressive Protestants, Greta worshipers, Wiccans, Furries, pagans, hippie-type Buddhists, and that LGBT person who wandered into your church to tell you that you are a homophobe.
The MSM’s only job is to get Trump. Nothing else. They’re Deep State puppets and their role is specific. Get Donald Trump! In the process they’ve destroyed their entire institution. The National Enquirer has more journalistic integrity than CNN and all the cable and network newscasts combined!
Left-handed one-legged lesbians with a college degree and more than three cats east of the Mississippi stand against Trump, or at least lean against Trump, by more than 70% when surveyed on a Wednesday.
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