Is Trump doing better than Romney among evangelicals?

Published July 13, 2016 8:16pm ET



Donald Trump’s decision to meet with more than 1,000 religious leaders in New York last month may finally be paying off, if a new Pew Research Center report is any indication.

Seventy-eight percent of white evangelical voters in the latest PRC poll said they are likely to vote for Trump in November, versus 17 percent who are likely to support Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton. Slightly more than a third of white evangelicals said they “strongly support” Trump at the moment.

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