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US Election: Advantage Biden as white evangelical support for Trump slips

A Pew survey on Oct. 13 found that white evangelical support for Trump had slipped since August, from 83% to 78%

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When Trump was campaigning in 2016, many Christians conceded that while they didn’t approve of his crude personality or his “immoral” lifestyle, they believed his policies.

Stewart Clem | The Conversation
It has long been taken for granted that the majority of evangelical Christians in the United States will vote for Donald Trump.
That may well be the case. But there are recent signs that fewer evangelicals will support Trump this time around than in 2016.
In an August 2020 poll for Fox News, Trump registered a 38-point advantage over Joe Biden among among white evangelical voters. That is impressive, but it pales in comparison with his 61-point advantage over Hillary Clinton among evangelicals in the 2016 election.
Meanwhile, a Pew survey on Oct. 13 found that

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