White Evangelicals Back Trump by Wide Margin

Strong support from major voting bloc.

He isn't known as a strongly religious man but one religious voting block is getting strongly behind Donald Trump. The New York Times reports on a Pew Research Center study that shows evangelicals are fully behind The Donald:

Nearly four-fifths of white evangelical voters plan to cast their ballots for Donald J. Trump despite his multiple marriages, lack of piety and inconsistency on the issues they care about most, a new poll has found.

Support for Mr. Trump among white evangelicals is even stronger than it was four years ago for Mitt Romney, the previous Republican nominee for president, according to the poll of religious voters, released on Tuesday by the Pew Research Center.

The study says that white evangelicals account for about 20% of all registered voters. Meanwhile Catholics, often seen as the swing vote constituency needed to win the presidency, are leaning towards Hillary Clinton.

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