{"id":2014,"date":"2020-01-10T12:42:25","date_gmt":"2020-01-10T12:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=2014"},"modified":"2020-01-10T12:42:25","modified_gmt":"2020-01-10T12:42:25","slug":"one-surprisingly-simple-reason-evangelicals-love-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=2014","title":{"rendered":"One surprisingly simple reason evangelicals love Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/religioninpublic.blog\/2019\/12\/26\/just-how-far-are-white-evangelicals-out-of-the-mainstream-a-case-study-of-immigration-and-abortion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Burge\u2019s analysis<\/a>, published Thursday, finds that on issues ranging from border security to immigration detention, white evangelicals \u2014 a group that includes dozens of individual denominations, from the Southern Baptist Convention to the Pentecostal movement \u2014 are substantially more conservative than the average American and even the next most conservative religious group.&#8221;&nbsp;<br>&#8230;<br>&#8220;on the whole, the president\u2019s views on immigration have drawn support from evangelicals, a key voting bloc that&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/acts-of-faith\/wp\/2016\/11\/09\/exit-polls-show-white-evangelicals-voted-overwhelmingly-for-donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">helped carry<\/a>&nbsp;him to victory in battleground states in 2016. It\u2019s a strategy that his campaign is hoping to replicate in 2020 and, so far, it appears to be working: Trump has a&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/maristpoll.marist.edu\/npr-pbs-newshour-marist-poll-results-12\/#sthash.wOYkKjS0.EB3zch2X.dpbs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">75 percent approval rating<\/a>&nbsp;among white evangelicals, compared to 42 percent among all Americans.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/policy-and-politics\/2019\/12\/27\/21038031\/white-evangelicals-trump-immigration-election-2020\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/policy-and-politics\/2019\/12\/27\/21038031\/white-evangelicals-trump-immigration-election-2020<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Burge\u2019s analysis, published Thursday, finds that on issues ranging from border security to immigration detention, white evangelicals \u2014 a group that includes dozens of individual denominations, from the Southern Baptist Convention to the Pentecostal movement \u2014 are substantially more conservative than the average American and even the next most conservative religious group.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;on the whole, the president\u2019s views on immigration have drawn support from evangelicals, a key voting bloc that helped carry him to victory in battleground states in 2016. It\u2019s a strategy that his campaign is hoping to replicate in 2020 and, so far, it appears to be working: Trump has a 75 percent approval rating among white evangelicals, compared to 42 percent among all Americans.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[223,220,219,221,218,25,222,57,170],"class_list":["post-2014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-burge","tag-christian-right","tag-conservatives","tag-donald-trump","tag-evangelicals","tag-immigration","tag-president","tag-religion","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2014"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2015,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2014\/revisions\/2015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}