Will Evangelicals Try to Get Trump to Change?

Will Evangelicals Try to Get Trump to Change?
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President Trump has a strange relationship with white, evangelical Americans. While evangelicals are happy about the president's support for policies that grant more power to religious institutions and broadly expand protections of religious freedoms, his behavior has been a sticking point.

Part of the issue is that Trump has the double problem of not ever being considered religious and his no-filter communication style makes him a problematic figure to support on face value.

The more significant issue is of his alleged affairs. While multiple women have come forward and accused Trump of infidelity and sexual assault, pornstar Stormy Daniels is the most prominent. Her recent interview on 60 Minutes had more viewers than Trump's inauguration, and the optics of the affair did cause a slight dip in the number of evangelicals supporting Trump.

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