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White evangelicals voted overwhelmingly for Donald Trump, exit polls show
Exit polls show white evangelical voters voted in high numbers for Donald Trump, 81-16 percent, according to exit poll results. That’s the most they have voted for a Republican presidential candidate since 2004, when they overwhelmingly chose President George W. Bush by a margin of 78-21 percent. Their support for Trump will likely be seen as part of the reason the GOP candidate performed unexpectedly well in Tuesday’s election, according to Five Thirty Eight.
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Evangelical voters are potentially among the strongest demographic groups for Trump, and they help explain why he is doing unexpectedly well tonight. Trump’s margin among evangelical white Christians is 81-16 percent, according to exit poll results.
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Here's a clue, stop labeling people. Trump wasn't elected because somebody happened to be a Christian. Still looking for excuses for failure? Scapegoats to soothe our sensitive goody two shoes emotions? Can't accept being wrong? People are sick of being labeled....especially the deplorable ones. That's who voted for Trump. There is a box full of human foibles and every time somebody takes offence or disagrees with a lifestyle, or a belief, or a preference, the appropriate label is pulled out of that box and pinned on the offender.
Everybody has a label and a number assigned for value for the pundits to come up with conclusions that often mean nothing.
They are people first.
There are two main reasons Trump won:
1 Foremost, Hillary's stand on guns.
2 Open borders.
There may’ve been more at stake in this election than gun rights and the exploitation of migrant labor. Just saying.
There was.