https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/511809-biden-looks-to-make-inroads-with-evangelical-votersPresumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden is seeking to make inroads with evangelical voters, a demographic that overwhelmingly sided with President Trump during the 2016 election.
Team Biden doesn’t think it can win over all evangelicals or even a majority, but it does think it can slice off some of them from Trump’s coalition by emphasizing the former vice president’s personal faith and values.
At the Democratic National Convention, Biden’s campaign will hold an interfaith service on Aug. 16, and a Believers for Biden watch party ahead of the candidate’s acceptance speech is set for Aug. 20, according to a Biden adviser.
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Polls suggest that Trump has lost some support from the evangelical community even though he maintains a large lead. Pew Research Center polling in April found Trump with a 78 percent approval rating with white evangelicals. It dipped to 72 percent in June.
Katelyn Beaty, the former managing editor at Christianity Today, said the Biden campaign can “realistically hope” to gain about 3 to 4 percentage points from the white evangelical demographic. In 2016, Trump earned 81 percent of the white evangelical vote.
