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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,234 posts)
Wed Nov 4, 2020, 02:37 PM Nov 2020

Exit polls show strong white evangelical support for Trump

White voters who identify as evangelical Christians, a key bloc of support for President Trump in 2016, broke heavily for him again this week, according to exit polling data.

White evangelical and born-again Christian voters voted for the president 76 percent to 23 percent, The New York Times reported on Tuesday. However, the margin was down slightly from 2016, when exit polling indicated white evangelicals voted for Trump by a margin of 81 percent to 16 percent.

The 2016 numbers were the widest split since exit polling began including white evangelicals as a category in 2004.

The only group exit polling found with a higher percentage supporting the president were those who identified as Republicans or conservatives.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/exit-polls-show-strong-white-evangelical-support-for-trump/ar-BB1aH9UL?li=BBnbfcQ&ocid=DELLDHP

Some of the biggest phonies around.

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Exit polls show strong white evangelical support for Trump (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Nov 2020 OP
because trump is a role model for those right winger racist xtian family values nt msongs Nov 2020 #1
Well, at least Biden had a net gain of five points. Turin_C3PO Nov 2020 #2
And weak sheepish people. kimbutgar Nov 2020 #7
While they call themselves the "Moral Majority" VMA131Marine Nov 2020 #3
They worship their golden calf. nt cry baby Nov 2020 #4
King Nebuchadnezzar's Golden Image comes to mind - Daniel 3:6 BrightKnight Nov 2020 #12
And these motherfuckers vote, unlike our side. SunSeeker Nov 2020 #5
MF45 espouses everything a bad Christian follows kimbutgar Nov 2020 #6
My grandma used to say Bettie Nov 2020 #9
Maybe there is a god Bettie Nov 2020 #8
There was a lot of wishful thinking that he was losing ground with them Mariana Nov 2020 #10
One thing I will never, ever understand about Trumpvangelicals: Initech Nov 2020 #11
Well, it's typical of the people they flock to - the Joel Osteens and Jim Bakkers.... LisaM Nov 2020 #16
Bill Maher had a great new rule about this. Initech Nov 2020 #18
Guess it's okay to kill hundreds of thousands of Americans as long as the embryos are safe and Vinca Nov 2020 #13
They'd vote for Hitler if he were running as a Republican cherish44 Nov 2020 #14
Right. It's all about white male entitlement. mzmolly Nov 2020 #15
Herd mentality. These folks are frightened by life's choices. Miigwech Nov 2020 #17
How Christian of them liberal N proud Nov 2020 #19
Water is wet. shrike3 Nov 2020 #20
Rewarding him for Coney Barrett. redstatebluegirl Nov 2020 #21
religion is a cancer on humanity. lindysalsagal Nov 2020 #22
The subliminal message preached within every evangelical church sermon: Goodheart Nov 2020 #23
Anyone that has read much scripture knows Trump is about as Christian as Nero Caesar. BrightKnight Nov 2020 #24

BrightKnight

(3,567 posts)
12. King Nebuchadnezzar's Golden Image comes to mind - Daniel 3:6
Wed Nov 4, 2020, 02:47 PM
Nov 2020

Nebuchadnezzar's Golden Image
…As soon as you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipes, and all kinds of music, you must fall down and worship the golden statue that King Nebuchadnezzar has set up. And whoever does not fall down and worship will immediately be thrown into the blazing fiery furnace.” Therefore, as soon as all the people heard the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, and all kinds of music, the people of every nation and language would fall down and worship the golden statue that King Nebuchadnezzar had set up.…

kimbutgar

(21,213 posts)
6. MF45 espouses everything a bad Christian follows
Wed Nov 4, 2020, 02:40 PM
Nov 2020

You can’t say you love Jesus and love MF45 and what he represents.

The evangelicals I know are weak people who gravitated to the church for comfort and authoritarianism.

Bettie

(16,129 posts)
9. My grandma used to say
Wed Nov 4, 2020, 02:42 PM
Nov 2020

that it is easy to be Very Religious and a Republican: there's always someone to tell you what you believe.

Bettie

(16,129 posts)
8. Maybe there is a god
Wed Nov 4, 2020, 02:41 PM
Nov 2020

and he really is the anti-christ they've been warned about.

That's the only way this tracks, unless they don't actually follow their own holy book.

Oh, that's more likely, they don't follow the purported teachings of their religion.

Mariana

(14,861 posts)
10. There was a lot of wishful thinking that he was losing ground with them
Wed Nov 4, 2020, 02:43 PM
Nov 2020

because a few well-known Evangelicals spoke out against him. However, those dissenters were very much the exceptions that proved the rule.

Initech

(100,107 posts)
11. One thing I will never, ever understand about Trumpvangelicals:
Wed Nov 4, 2020, 02:46 PM
Nov 2020

Is how in one sentence, they will say the most vile, hateful, abusive shit you've ever heard in your life. And the next sentence they will be saying "praise Jesus" and "love thy neighbor". Fucking hypocrites, the whole lot of 'em!

LisaM

(27,840 posts)
16. Well, it's typical of the people they flock to - the Joel Osteens and Jim Bakkers....
Wed Nov 4, 2020, 02:52 PM
Nov 2020

this is just in their DNA, apparently, to follow hypocritical, misogynistic autocrats. Trump is cut out of the same cloth, apparently.

Initech

(100,107 posts)
18. Bill Maher had a great new rule about this.
Wed Nov 4, 2020, 02:54 PM
Nov 2020

He said that right wing evangelicals don't worship Jesus. No, they worship the Old Testament god, and that god is a raging, egomaniacal asshole, much in the same way Trump is.

Vinca

(50,312 posts)
13. Guess it's okay to kill hundreds of thousands of Americans as long as the embryos are safe and
Wed Nov 4, 2020, 02:50 PM
Nov 2020

the gays stay in the closet and the non-white people know their place. WTF is wrong with these people? They're totally, totally nuts.

liberal N proud

(60,346 posts)
19. How Christian of them
Wed Nov 4, 2020, 03:06 PM
Nov 2020

Heard this today from trumpers. Biden will take their religious rights away.

How fucked up is that?

lindysalsagal

(20,733 posts)
22. religion is a cancer on humanity.
Wed Nov 4, 2020, 03:56 PM
Nov 2020

And this is the proof. We hurt ourselves so we can believe in stone age fairy tales.

Goodheart

(5,345 posts)
23. The subliminal message preached within every evangelical church sermon:
Wed Nov 4, 2020, 03:58 PM
Nov 2020

"We need our money, so Jesus loves hypocrites. "

BrightKnight

(3,567 posts)
24. Anyone that has read much scripture knows Trump is about as Christian as Nero Caesar.
Wed Nov 4, 2020, 04:57 PM
Nov 2020

There is nothing Christian about anything he does or says.

I can't really wrap my head around it. I am guessing they are Churches like Trump University is a University.

He said to them, 24 “Make every effort to enter through the narrow door, because many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able to. 25 Once the owner of the house gets up and closes the door, you will stand outside knocking and pleading, ‘Sir, open the door for us.’ “But he will answer, ‘I don’t know you or where you come from.’ 26 “Then you will say, ‘We ate and drank with you, and you taught in our streets.’ 27 “But he will reply, ‘I don’t know you or where you come from. Away from me, all you evildoers!’ 28 “There will be weeping there, and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, but you yourselves thrown out. 29 People will come from east and west and north and south, and will take their places at the feast in the kingdom of God. 30 Indeed there are those who are last who will be first, and first who will be last.”

Luke 13:22-35

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