Trump is the leading candidate for White Evangelicals

[Fuzzy Bear Loves Christian Missionaries]

Trump is doing well across all groups because he is the only one who is channelling the anger that many Americans feel about the pace of change in the country and abroad (the insecurity brought by globalisation and technology, Obama's election, Supreme Court rulings on Obamacare and gay marriage, immigration, ISIS etc.). Different groups have different points of emphasis - e.g. for evangelicals morality and gay marriage, but there is a general thread of anger and insecurity that works against the positioning and donor chasing of established GOP politicians.

Very true.  The other candidates, to varying degrees, are preoccupied on how to zap the other guy for not being conservative enough, and it isn't working with voters who fit the description above.

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https://www.yahoo.com/politics/why-are-white-evangelicals-supporting-trump-it-127261597616.html

This article tries to explain, but still, there's some things I don't think I'll ever understand.

Maybe because he's repeatedly been saying that the Bible is much better than even The Art of the Deal?

[useful idiot]

Saying 20% of white evangelical Republicans support Trump is just a way of saying 80% don't support him. They also support him to a lesser degree than non-evangelical Republicans.

There are 17 candidates in the field, the fact that one of them is consistently ahead with 25% of respondants doesn't make them popular.

Trump has 100% name ID and is on TV every five seconds, why are we surprised he's leading, again?

[dudeabides]

Saying 20% of white evangelical Republicans support Trump is just a way of saying 80% don't support him. They also support him to a lesser degree than non-evangelical Republicans.

There are 17 candidates in the field, the fact that one of them is consistently ahead with 25% of respondants doesn't make them popular.

Trump has 100% name ID and is on TV every five seconds, why are we surprised he's leading, again?

Agreed. The 20% of white evangelicals are just a bunch of angry RINOs who are okay with a national socialist who has voiced support for gun-grabbing, tax raising, and "free" health care -they only care about gays not being able to get married because we all know that's a crisis today. Funny, Trump has also referred to himself as "very pro-choice" and even the Republican who has not flip-flopped on his support for abortion rights in this campaign has supported defunding planned parenthood.

To be clear, I have nothing about the vast majority of evangelicals, but these 20% get me mad because they support this national socialist for President.

Donald Trump is okay with the government getting involved in the market, gun-grabbing, tax raising, socialized medicine, and taxpayers funding an organization that harvests the organs of babies for profit. Apparently, he is also pro-stimulus. His supporters are the biggest RINOs on the planet, I can't even call Pataki supporters RINO's even though they are more moderate, they are not extreme leftists like Trump's voters.

[Likely Voter]

...The 20% of white evangelicals are just a bunch of angry RINOs who are okay with a national socialist who has voiced support for ...

...they support this national socialist for President...

If you are trying to call someone a nazi don't get cute about it, come out and say nazi

On second thought, don't call people nazis who aren't actual nazis, otherwise it is just Goodwin's Law

[dudeabides]

...The 20% of white evangelicals are just a bunch of angry RINOs who are okay with a national socialist who has voiced support for ...

...they support this national socialist for President...

If you are trying to call someone a nazi don't get cute about it, come out and say nazi

On second thought, don't call people nazis who aren't actual nazis, otherwise it is just Goodwin's Law

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I'll also go further. Look at Trump's policy positions on guns and health care.

[DC Al Fine]

Trump is actually under performing somewhat among Evangelicals, so perhaps we shouldn't try to create narratives about his special appeal to them.

[Higgs]

Trump is actually under performing somewhat among Evangelicals, so perhaps we shouldn't try to create narratives about his special appeal to them.

Carson's numbers are surprising

[Leinad]

Trump isn't a Nazi. His ideology is like most Americans in that it's not well-defined, and there are some extreme positions, but cumulatively it's somewhere in the middle.

[dudeabides]

Trump isn't a Nazi. His ideology is like most Americans in that it's not well-defined, and there are some extreme positions, but cumulatively it's somewhere in the middle.

His group blame is what links him to nazis, not his positions necessarily - though the nazis did support gun-grabbing and government-run health care.

[Fuzzy Bear Loves Christian Missionaries]

Trump is actually under performing somewhat among Evangelicals, so perhaps we shouldn't try to create narratives about his special appeal to them.

He certainly was their candidate in the GE.

During the primaries, Trump got a decent amount of folks who identified as Evangelicals, but Ted Cruz was the favored candidate of regular churchgoers.  This should not surprise folks, all things considered.