Highly religious Americans are significantly more likely than others to identify as Republicans. This is a robust, continuous facet of American society. …
Some of the discussion in contemporary public discourse seems to assume that evangelicals start with a blank slate when they look at the president, making their approval decision from scratch based on the politician’s particular attributes or behaviors. The reality is, in contrast, that most Americans’ approach to a politician is highly conditioned by and controlled by the political context; namely, partisan identity. American evangelicals’ starting point in evaluating Trump is their highly preconditioned and reflexive tendency to support Republican politicians. CONT.
Frank Newport, Gallup