Former President Donald Trump increased his support among White evangelicals during the 2020 election compared to 2016 but lost support among White Catholics and was beaten soundly by President Biden among Black Protestants, according to a new Pew Research report.
The report, released this week, found that Trump received 84 percent of the White evangelical vote in 2020, compared to the 77 percent he received from that demographic in 2016. Biden received 15 percent of the White evangelical support, down slightly from the 16 percent received by Hillary Clinton in 2016.
“Without such broad support for Trump among White evangelicals, Biden would have beaten him by more than 20 points,” the report says.
Black Protestants heavily favored Biden by a margin of 91-9 percent. (Pew did not list the 2016 figures for Black Protestants.)
The report is based on a survey of 11,818 members of Pew Research Center’s American Trends Panel that was conducted between Nov. 12-17 of last year.
