Internal, self-selecting polls from some Christian colleges in the days approaching the general election also showed weaker Trump support than among the evangelical community at large. At Wheaton College in Illinois, 43 percent of respondents said they would vote for Clinton, while at Grove City College in Pennsylvania, 52 percent said they’d vote for Trump.
Ed Stetzer, executive director of the Billy Graham Center for Evangelism at Wheaton, said the weaker Trump support among college students is a generational issue.
“Millennials do tend to be more politically progressive than their parents,” Stetzer told The Wheaton Record, the school’s student newspaper. “I do think that justice-oriented millennials are going to be really concerned with some of the comments Donald Trump has said about women, minorities, refugees, and more.”
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