{"id":7794,"date":"2024-03-15T10:57:32","date_gmt":"2024-03-15T15:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/%year%\/%monthnum%\/%day%\/5-facts-about-religion-and-americans-views-of-donald-trump\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T23:19:54","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T03:19:54","slug":"5-facts-about-religion-and-americans-views-of-donald-trump","status":"publish","type":"short-read","link":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/2024\/03\/15\/5-facts-about-religion-and-americans-views-of-donald-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"5 facts about religion and Americans\u2019 views of Donald Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-640-wide\"><img data-dominant-color=\"3d2f4a\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" style=\"--dominant-color: #3d2f4a;\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2024\/03\/SR_24.03.15_trump-religion_feature-jpg.webp?resize=480,270 480w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2024\/03\/SR_24.03.15_trump-religion_feature-jpg.webp?resize=782,440 782w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2024\/03\/SR_24.03.15_trump-religion_feature-jpg.webp?resize=960,540 960w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2024\/03\/SR_24.03.15_trump-religion_feature-jpg.webp?resize=1200,675 1200w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2024\/03\/SR_24.03.15_trump-religion_feature-jpg.webp?resize=1280,720 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 480px, (max-width: 782px) 782px, 640px\" height=\"360\" width=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/SR_24.03.15_trump-religion_feature-jpg.webp?w=640\" alt=\"Faith leaders pray over then-President Donald Trump during an &quot;Evangelicals for Trump&quot; campaign event held at the King Jesus International Ministry on Jan. 3, 2020, in Miami. (Joe Raedle\/Getty Images)\" class=\"wp-image-8271 not-transparent\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Faith leaders pray over then-President Donald Trump during an &#8220;Evangelicals for Trump&#8221; campaign event held at the King Jesus International Ministry on Jan. 3, 2020, in Miami. (Joe Raedle\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For most of the last decade, observers have been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2024\/01\/21\/1225860255\/evangelical-voters-trump-2024\">trying to understand<\/a> why so many highly religious Americans have a favorable view of Donald Trump, asking how values voters can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2023\/04\/21\/trump-values-voter-wing-gop-00093175\">support a candidate<\/a> who has been divorced twice, married three times and <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-rape-carroll-trial-fe68259a4b98bb3947d42af9ec83d7db\">found liable for sexual abuse<\/a>. Is Trump viewed most positively by those who might be described as \u201cChristians in name only\u201d \u2013 people who identify as Christians but aren\u2019t actually religious?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The latest Pew Research Center survey sheds light on these and related questions. Here are five facts about religion and views of Trump, based on our survey of 12,693 U.S. adults conducted Feb. 13-25.<\/p>\n\n\n<div style=\"border-width:1px;padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);--block-gap: inherit\" class=\"wp-block-prc-block-collapsible has-background has-ui-beige-very-light-background-color has-border-color has-ui-beige-dark-border-color\" id=\"how-we-did-this\" data-wp-interactive=\"{&quot;namespace&quot;:&quot;prc-block\\\/collapsible&quot;}\" data-wp-context=\"{&quot;collapsibleId&quot;:&quot;how-we-did-this&quot;,&quot;isOpen&quot;:false}\" data-wp-class--is-open=\"context.isOpen\" data-wp-init--scroll-into-view=\"callbacks.onInitScrollIntoView\"><div class=\"wp-block-prc-block-collapsible__title\" data-wp-on--click=\"actions.onClick\"><div>How we did this<\/div><button class=\"wp-block-prc-block-collapsible__icon\"><span data-wp-bind--hidden=\"context.isOpen\"><i class=\"icon icon-library__light icon__circle-plus\"><svg style=\"width: 1em; height: 1em;\"><use xlink:href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/plugins\/prc-icon-library\/build\/icons\/sprites\/light.svg#circle-plus\"><\/use><\/svg><\/i><\/span><span data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!context.isOpen\" hidden><i class=\"icon icon-library__light icon__circle-minus\"><svg style=\"width: 1em; height: 1em;\"><use xlink:href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/plugins\/prc-icon-library\/build\/icons\/sprites\/light.svg#circle-minus\"><\/use><\/svg><\/i><\/span><\/button><\/div><div class=\"wp-block-prc-block-collapsible__content\">\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pew Research Center conducted this analysis to explore the connection between religion and views of Donald Trump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a><\/a>For this analysis, we surveyed 12,693 respondents from Feb. 13 to 25, 2024. Most of the respondents (10,642) are members of the Center\u2019s American Trends Panel, an online survey panel recruited through national random sampling of residential addresses, which gives nearly all U.S. adults a chance of selection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The remaining respondents (2,051) are members of three other panels, the Ipsos KnowledgePanel, the NORC AmeriSpeak panel and the SSRS opinion panel. All three are national survey panels recruited through random sampling (not \u201copt-in\u201d polls). We used these additional panels to ensure that the survey would have enough Jewish and Muslim respondents to be able to report on their views.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The survey is weighted to be representative of the U.S. adult population by gender, race, ethnicity, partisan affiliation, education, religious affiliation and other categories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For more, refer to the <a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/our-methods\/u-s-surveys\/the-american-trends-panel\/\">ATP\u2019s methodology<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/religion\/2024\/03\/15\/religion-public-life-methodology\/\">methodology for this survey<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"is-style-has-big-number wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Among religious groups, White evangelical Protestants continue to have the most positive opinion of Trump. <\/strong>Overall, two-thirds of White evangelical Protestants say they have a favorable view of the former president, including 30% who have a <em>very<\/em> favorable opinion of him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-640-wide is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/2024\/03\/15\/5-facts-about-religion-and-americans-views-of-donald-trump\/sr_24-03-15_trump-religion_1-png\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8275\"><img data-dominant-color=\"ebe9e0\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2024\/03\/SR_24.03.15_trump-religion_1.png?resize=480,803 480w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2024\/03\/SR_24.03.15_trump-religion_1.png?resize=782,1309 782w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2024\/03\/SR_24.03.15_trump-religion_1.png?resize=840,1406 840w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 480px, (max-width: 782px) 782px, 640px\" height=\"1071\" width=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2024\/03\/SR_24.03.15_trump-religion_1.png?w=640\" alt=\"A diverging bar chart showing that two-thirds of White evangelicals see Trump favorably.\" class=\"wp-image-8275 not-transparent\" style=\"--dominant-color: #ebe9e0; width:420px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Roughly half of White Catholics (51%) express positive views of Trump, as do 47% of White nonevangelical Protestants and 45% of Hispanic Protestants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But in every other U.S. religious group large enough to be analyzed in this survey, large majorities have <em>unfavorable<\/em> opinions of Trump, including: &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>88% of atheists<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>82% of agnostics<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>80% of Black Protestants<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>79% of Jewish Americans<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These religious patterns largely reflect <a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/politics\/2023\/07\/12\/voting-patterns-in-the-2022-elections\/#Religion-and-the-2022-election\">partisan differences<\/a>. Most White evangelicals tend to vote for Republicans, as do smaller majorities of White Catholics and White nonevangelical Protestants. By contrast, most atheists, agnostics, Black Protestants and Jews tend to vote for Democrats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"is-style-has-big-number wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Trump\u2019s favorability rating is similar among Christians who attend church regularly and those who don\u2019t. <\/strong>Some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/01\/08\/us\/politics\/donald-trump-evangelicals-iowa.html\">observers have pointed out<\/a> that Trump\u2019s political base consists largely of people who call themselves Christians but don\u2019t go to church. However, our survey shows that Christians who regularly go to church express equally favorable views of Trump as those who don\u2019t often attend religious services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-640-wide is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/2024\/03\/15\/5-facts-about-religion-and-americans-views-of-donald-trump\/sr_24-03-15_trump-religion_2-png\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8278\"><img data-dominant-color=\"eaeae6\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2024\/03\/SR_24.03.15_trump-religion_2.png?resize=480,699 480w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2024\/03\/SR_24.03.15_trump-religion_2.png?resize=782,1139 782w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2024\/03\/SR_24.03.15_trump-religion_2.png?resize=840,1224 840w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 480px, (max-width: 782px) 782px, 640px\" height=\"933\" width=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2024\/03\/SR_24.03.15_trump-religion_2.png?w=640\" alt=\"A diverging bar chart showing that Christians who attend church regularly and those who don't have similar views of Trump.\" class=\"wp-image-8278 not-transparent\" style=\"--dominant-color: #eaeae6; width:420px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Among Christians as a whole, 47% of those who attend church at least monthly say they have a favorable view of the former president. That\u2019s on par with the 46% of non-church-attending Christians who say the same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Among White evangelical Protestants, 68% of regular churchgoers have a positive view of Trump \u2013 similar to the 64% among White evangelicals who don\u2019t attend church regularly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The only exception to this pattern is among White Protestants who <em>do<\/em> <em>not<\/em> identify as born-again or evangelical. In this group, Trump is viewed more favorably by those who don\u2019t attend church regularly than by those who do (52% vs. 32%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"is-style-has-big-number wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Many of the people who view Trump favorably don\u2019t go to religious services regularly \u2013 but very few are nonreligious.<\/strong> Overall, 64% of respondents who have a favorable view of Trump say they attend religious services a few times a year or less often, while 35% say they go to services at least once or twice a month. (Among all respondents, 69% say they attend religious services a few times a year or less, while 30% go at least monthly.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-640-wide is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/2024\/03\/15\/5-facts-about-religion-and-americans-views-of-donald-trump\/sr_24-03-15_trump-religion_4-png\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8282\"><img data-dominant-color=\"f0f0f0\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2024\/03\/SR_24.03.15_trump-religion_4.png?resize=480,738 480w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2024\/03\/SR_24.03.15_trump-religion_4.png?resize=782,1203 782w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2024\/03\/SR_24.03.15_trump-religion_4.png?resize=840,1292 840w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 480px, (max-width: 782px) 782px, 640px\" height=\"984\" width=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2024\/03\/SR_24.03.15_trump-religion_4.png?w=640\" alt=\"Table comparing those who have a favorable view of Donald Trump by level of religious commitment. 23% of U.S. adults with a favorable view of Trump are highly religious, including 11% who are highly religious White evangelical Protestants.\" class=\"wp-image-8282 not-transparent\" style=\"--dominant-color: #f0f0f0; width:420px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Religious attendance is just one way of looking at religious commitment. Another common way we measure it is to combine survey questions about attendance at religious services, how often people pray and how important religion is to them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">U.S. adults who attend religious services at least weekly, pray daily <em>and<\/em> say religion is very important in their lives are categorized as highly religious. Those who seldom or never attend services, seldom or never pray <em>and<\/em> say religion is not too important or not at all important in their lives are counted as having low religious commitment. Everyone else is counted as having medium religious commitment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Looked at this way, 23% of U.S. adults with a favorable view of Trump are highly religious, including 11% who are highly religious White evangelical Protestants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another 62% of Americans with a favorable view of Trump have medium levels of religious commitment, including 13% who are White evangelicals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just 15% of people with a favorable view of Trump have low levels of religious commitment. By far the biggest subgroup within this category is religious \u201cnones\u201d \u2013 people who describe their religious identity as atheist, agnostic or \u201cnothing in particular.\u201d Overall, 18% of people with a positive view of Trump are religious \u201cnones,\u201d including 10% who are \u201cnones\u201d with low levels of religiousness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Very few of the people who have a positive view of Trump are White evangelical Protestants with a low level of religiousness. Indeed, self-described White evangelical Protestants who are not religiously observant account for less than 1% of the overall U.S. population. Even if a candidate wanted to form a coalition rooted in support from nonreligious evangelicals, there just aren\u2019t enough of them to be a national political base.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"is-style-has-big-number wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Most people who view Trump positively don\u2019t think he is especially religious himself. But many think he stands up for people with religious beliefs like theirs.<\/strong> Just 8% of people who have a positive view of Trump think he is very religious, while 51% think he is somewhat religious and 38% say <a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/religion\/2024\/03\/15\/8-in-10-americans-say-religion-is-losing-influence-in-public-life\/\">he is not too or not at all religious<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But 51% of those with a favorable view of Trump think he stands up for people with religious beliefs like their own, including 24% who think he does this a great deal and 27% who say he does this quite a bit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Among White evangelical Protestants with a favorable view of Trump, just 9% view him as very religious. But roughly two-thirds think he does a great deal (32%) or quite a bit (35%) to stand up for people with religious beliefs like theirs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-640-wide is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/2024\/03\/15\/5-facts-about-religion-and-americans-views-of-donald-trump\/sr_24-03-15_trump-religion_5-png\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8284\"><img data-dominant-color=\"ebebeb\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2024\/03\/SR_24.03.15_trump-religion_5.png?resize=480,297 480w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2024\/03\/SR_24.03.15_trump-religion_5.png?resize=782,484 782w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2024\/03\/SR_24.03.15_trump-religion_5.png?resize=960,594 960w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2024\/03\/SR_24.03.15_trump-religion_5.png?resize=1200,743 1200w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2024\/03\/SR_24.03.15_trump-religion_5.png?resize=1280,792 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 480px, (max-width: 782px) 782px, 640px\" height=\"396\" width=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2024\/03\/SR_24.03.15_trump-religion_5.png?w=640\" alt=\"Table showing that among Americans who like Donald Trump, just 8% say he is very religious himself \u2013 but 51% say he does a great deal or quite a bit to stand up for people with religious beliefs like theirs\" class=\"wp-image-8284 not-transparent\" style=\"--dominant-color: #ebebeb; width:640px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"is-style-has-big-number wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Religious \u201cnones\u201d who are culturally Christian view Trump a bit more positively than religious \u201cnones\u201d who aren\u2019t.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-640-wide is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/2024\/03\/15\/5-facts-about-religion-and-americans-views-of-donald-trump\/sr_24-03-15_trump-religion_3-png\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8280\"><img data-dominant-color=\"edeae6\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2024\/03\/SR_24.03.15_trump-religion_3.png?resize=480,441 480w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2024\/03\/SR_24.03.15_trump-religion_3.png?resize=782,719 782w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2024\/03\/SR_24.03.15_trump-religion_3.png?resize=840,772 840w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 480px, (max-width: 782px) 782px, 640px\" height=\"588\" width=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2024\/03\/SR_24.03.15_trump-religion_3.png?w=640\" alt=\"A diverging bar chart showing that, among religious 'nones, cultural Christians are modestly more favorable toward Trump.\" class=\"wp-image-8280 not-transparent\" style=\"--dominant-color: #edeae6; width:420px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One way to measure for differences between \u201ccultural\u201d and \u201cpracticing\u201d Christians is to compare Christians who do and don\u2019t do go to church regularly, as we did above. Another is to look at religiously unaffiliated respondents, or \u201cnones\u201d \u2013 people who describe themselves, religiously, as atheist, agnostic, or \u201cnothing in particular.\u201d In our new survey, we asked these Americans whether they think of themselves as Christians \u201caside from religion \u2026 for example ethnically, culturally or because of your family\u2019s background.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Religious \u201cnones\u201d who identify as culturally Christian have a modestly more favorable opinion of Trump than \u201cnones\u201d who do not identify as Christian in any way. 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