White evangelicals, Catholics and Mormons carried Trump - RNS

[TomSea]

White evangelicals, Catholics and Mormons carried Trump
 By: Lauren Markoe, RNS
November 9, 2016

(RNS) A strong white evangelical, white Catholic and Mormon vote for Donald Trump belied the condemnation many religious leaders had leveled at the tycoon and paved the way for a stunning upset after a long and polarizing campaign.

Preliminary exit polls indicate these religious groups voted for Trump by wide margins — and, in the case of white evangelicals, wider than they had given to GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney in 2012.

Christians who described themselves as evangelical and born-again gave Trump 81 percent of their votes, up 3 percentage points from their support for Mitt Romney, the 2012 GOP presidential nominee. Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton garnered 16 percent of their votes.

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[TomSea]

AFA's Bryan Fischer tweeted:

Evangelical vote went 81-16 for Trump, put him in the White House. Anybody still wanna say the Religious Right is dead?

https://twitter.com/BryanJFischer/status/796363482576912384

[jmyrlefuller]

Considering how wildly inaccurate the exit polls were this year, I might not take that much stock in that.

That, and it's not like the evangelicals/Mormons/etc. were going to vote for Clinton. If they didn't like Trump, they stayed home. (Utahns had the choice of picking McMullin, but that kind of fizzled.)