Tweets, ‘character problems,’ cost Trump 720,000 evangelical votes, maybe election

Published November 6, 2020 2:35pm ET



All those tweets and sometimes nasty bluster might have been enough to weaken the evangelical support for President Trump, possibly causing him to lose the election.

An analysis of religious voters suggests that the president not only didn’t add to his 2016 evangelical corps but lost about 1.6%, winning 79.4%.

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