Why do evangelicals appear to be less enthusiastic about Trump post-Roe?
December 18, 2023 12:02 PM   Subscribe

I want to know if there is a news article out there that attempts to explain the evangelical drift away from Trump before his more recent base-dividing comments (around 9/23) regarding the abortion issue - I believe as a result of a combination of polls he was shown and the midterm backlash - but after he captured the Roe victory for them.
posted by Selena777 to Law & Government (3 answers total)
 
Where are you getting the information that white evangelicals are less enthusiastic about Trump?

This piece from Reuters, just as one example, notes that "Trump drew first-choice support from 51% of evangelical voters in the NBC News/Des Moines Register/Mediacom poll released on Monday." This is about the Iowa caucus in particular, but what have you seen or read (especially polling) that suggests results in other states or nationwide are much different?
posted by soundguy99 at 12:42 PM on December 18, 2023 [7 favorites]


I think you’ll need to be specific about drift. But I think that the noise from evangelicals has been a bit quieter. But some very prominent mouthpieces were also taken out by Covid.
posted by amanda at 12:17 PM on December 19, 2023


Assuming your premise is correct, I wonder if it's simply that many Americans (evangelicals included) will actually know a family with someone who's faced the need for an abortion - or may be facing it right now. Condemning the availability of abortions in the abstract is very different from seeing with your own eyes the pain Roe's overthrow is causing a specific individual. It's no longer just "owning the Libs", but now very plainly causing damage you can't deny.
posted by Paul Slade at 12:07 AM on December 21, 2023


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