“No, the Majority of American Evangelicals Did Not Vote for Trump,” reads the headline of an article published this week at the Gospel Coalition. In the piece, Joe Carter argues that rather than 81 percent, only “somewhere between 35 percent and 45 percent of all evangelicals in America voted for Trump.”
Carter is right, of course, to point out that Trump’s poor showing among non-white evangelicals, particularly Latinos and African Americans, means that his total standing among all evangelicals likely came under 50 percent. But the whole weight of Carter’s argument depends on an inaccurate depiction of the media’s reporting on the election.
News media did not report, as Carter asserts, that “an overwhelming number of evangelicals” voted for Trump. Instead, news media, including the The New York Times, Washington Post and Fox News, to name a few, all made clear time and again that a majority of white evangelicals supported Trump.
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