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Wade decision, many white evangelicals became politically active and involved in the Christian right, [14] which became an important voting bloc in the Republican Party. Recently, however, observers such as journalist Frances FitzGerald have noted that since 2005 the influence of the Christian right among evangelicals has been in decline. [15]
Republican strategists had predicted that higher turnout would benefit Trump, because he has a greater volume of supporters to potentially bring to caucus. In turn, they said, lower turnout might ...
Evangelical confusion about the Republican party’s anti-abortion messaging began to set in ahead of the Republican convention, when the party endorsed a platform that says abortion is best left ...
The term evangelical itself is fraught and has become synonymous with the Republican Party, argues Ryan Burge, a political science professor at Eastern Illinois University.
In addition, as the Democratic Party became identified with liberal policies and nontraditional societal values, social conservatives joined the Republican Party in increasing numbers. [41] Despite these trends, many white evangelicals remained politically inactive and were not a unified voting bloc , with many believing political activism and ...
The evangelical minister and televangelist Pat Robertson sought the Republican nomination and would have been, at first glance, a natural choice for the Moral Majority's support. Although Robertson's political platforms were extremely similar to the ones the Moral Majority supported, Falwell gave his organization's endorsement to contender ...
Evangelical confusion about the Republican party’s anti-abortion messaging began to set in ahead of the Republican convention, when the party endorsed a platform that says abortion is best left ...
Bauer, who ran for the GOP presidential nomination in 2000, doesn’t agree that supporting Trump requires evangelicals to embrace authoritarianism or renounce their personal values.