Dramatic election ends with historic victory for Donald Trump.
Election results suggest that “Never Trump” was never a likely outcome for white evangelical voters, who showed up to support president-elect Donald Trump at a higher margin than any election since 2004.
Despite reservations expressed by many evangelical and Republican leaders, white evangelicals cast their ballots for the controversial mogul-turned-politician at an 81 percent to 16 percent margin over Hillary Clinton.
Evangelicals of color, who represent 2 in 5 evangelicals but aren’t segmented out in most national political polls, preferred Clinton in surveys leading up to the election. But she ultimately underperformed among Hispanics and African Americans compared to President Barack Obama before her.
While Clinton’s campaign ignored evangelical outreach (unlike Obama), Trump spent much of the months leading up to Election Day courting Christian support, and those voters—particularly in battleground states such as Ohio, North Carolina, and Florida—proved to be one of his strongest support bases. During the Obama election years, as many as a quarter of evangelicals voted Democrat; with Clinton, it was nearly 10 percentage points less than that.
“The fact of the matter is that in this race only one of the two major party candidates even pretended to care about white evangelicals,” tweeted the current president’s former faith advisor Michael Wear.
Exit polls also indicated that Trump swung the Catholic vote back to the GOP, after a majority of Catholics sided with Obama in the previous two elections.
Trump and Clinton proved a contentious pair from the start—more evangelical voters set out to select a candidate out of distaste for the opposition than out of support for ...
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