Why White Evangelists Support Trump and Republican Candidates
81% of white evangelists supported Trump in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, and 76-81% of white evangelists supported Trump in the 2020 presidential election. What's interesting is that their approval ratings for past Republican presidential candidates remain the same regardless of their candidates. The latest Republican presidential candidates, for example, George W. Bush, John McCain, Mitt Romney and Donald Trump, all received 70 to 80 percent support from white evangelists. But Mitt Romney is from Mormonism, which evangelicals consider heresy. Trump has divorced twice and lives with his third wife, has also appeared as a cameo in a Playboy pornographic film, and is a far cry from Christian life, with a transcript of his lewd remarks being released before the 2016 presidential election. Even Trump, in an interview, asked if he had ever asked God for forgiveness, said, "I have no such experience, and if I do something wrong, I will correct myself, and I do not attract