If the election were to be held today, the evangelical vote would be at least 20 percentage points lower than that of evangelicals for the Republican candidate in each of the last five elections, a recent poll by Barna Group, a Christian pollster, shows.
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That’s not great news for Donald Trump, who needs this voting bloc turnout in November to have any shot at the White House.
Christian conservatives — especially women — are stuck between a rock and a hard place this election cycle.
On one hand, you have Hillary Clinton, whose top staff mocked the religious right as “severely backwards,” and is running on the most progressive platform in Democratic history, which includes taxpayer funding for abortion.
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